"America had often been discovered before Columbus,..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Biography lends to death a new terror.”

“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”

“If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.”

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.”

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.”

“For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.”

“They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.”

“An honest politician is an oxymoron.”

“I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.”