Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest Hemingway

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
Walt Whitman

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Plato

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
Billy Graham

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy Graham

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
Rodney Dangerfield

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
Rodney Dangerfield

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
Stephen Leacock

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen Leacock

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Charles de Gaulle