To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
Sun Tzu

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips.
Ann Coulter

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
Bob Hope

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
James Dean

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell