20 May 2008

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I'm busy reading papers and exams.

In the spirit of these, I cheerfully cut and paste from the Internet, The Source of All Knowledge Inaccurately Quoted and Frequently Uncredited, a few quotes attributed to a notable playwright, poet, and wit.

The fact that several quotes appear in multiple versions either indicates that the man liked his material enough to use it often, or that we are soon to be subject to nothing but the vaguest degrees of accuracy in anything verbal.

To that end, I give you, without checking my sources:
Thoughts Suited For the End of a Term
- out of context -
from
Oscar Wilde.


Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

(Knitting progress shall resurface when I give myself permission to sneak knitting, photography, AND blogging into my breaks from reading papers.)

1 comment:

Elizabeth said...

I really like, "I am not young enough to know everything."

That about sums it all up for me today.