There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain