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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Fear Quotes , Exercise Quotes
  • We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes