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

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford