Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
Interpretation
Youth is a unique and valuable stage of life, unlike any other.
In this quote, Oscar Wilde highlights the preciousness of youth, suggesting that it possesses a distinct vitality and freedom that is lost in middle age and old age. He contrasts the carefree nature of youth with the burdens and regrets that often accompany later stages of life, where individuals are constrained by responsibilities and the passage of time.
In practice
In a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of seizing the moment.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.
I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
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