No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

If a man has done his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton

If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton