"Don't squander the gold of your days,..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.”

“One's only real life is the life one never leads.”

“Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.”

“Why do the people think so little of death?Because the rulers demand too much of life.Therefore the people take death lightly.”

“Youth is wasted on the young.”

“Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night.Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.”

“Time does not exist - we invented it”

“We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.”

“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .”