#his

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #better #colour #joy #less

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

— Oscar Wilde

#choice #his #man #too

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

— Oscar Wilde

#creating #god #his #i #i think

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

#act #always #animal #called #dictates

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#discovers #exploration #future #him #his

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. ↗

— George Will

#audience #his #less #politician #reveal

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter. ↗

— George Will

#affairs #american #american media #fine #his

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. ↗

— George Will

#emancipation #his #individual #passions #politics