Meandering to and fro . . .

Today is the birthday of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900), playwright, poet and author.

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
- Oscar Wilde

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
- Oscar Wilde

"Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend."
- Oscar Wilde

"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
- 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."
- Oscar Wilde

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
- Oscar Wilde

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
- Oscar Wilde

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