"No man is rich enough to buy..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
More by Oscar Wilde
“The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.”
“Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.”
“Time is a waste of money.”
More on Past
“When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.”
“Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.”
“If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.”
More on Regret
“We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.”
“Life loiters at the book's first page,--Ah! could we turn the leaf.”
“We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.”