Destinies!

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Quotable Quotes

I got a forwarded email with Oscar Wilde’s quotations from one of my colleague lately, here are excerpts:

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
• A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
• Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
• Beauty is a form of genius – is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
• Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
• Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.