WISDOM AND WITTICISM.

Mataura Ensign, 28 January 1911, Page 4

WISDOM AND WITTICISM.

THE OSCAR WILDE CALENDAR. Married liie is merely a habit. A tiling is not necessarily true Ih-chuhi* a man dies lor it. A man cannot be kki careful m choice of his enemies. Friendship never forgets, tint* m the wonderiul tiling about it. Tin* projier basis Jor marriage )K » 11l lIIIIH J mihlllllll'l'Mt mll < 1111 n. Crying is 11 :<• reluge of plain women, hut tin* ruin ol pretty ones. Tli«' world lias hern made by tool* that wist* men should live in it. Society often forgives the criminal, it never forgive* the dreamer. Only those should King oi death whoso song is stronger than death is. A man can Ik* happy with any woman as long as he dites not love her. Ihe man who could call a spade H spade should lie coiiijxlJ<*il to use oik*. l'orini*rly we used to canonize our great men, nowadays we vulgarise them. The real tragedy of the jjooi is that they can afford nothing hut self-denial. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value oi nothing. Everyone is horn a king and Mont jK'ople die in exile, like most king*. Death and vulgarity are the only two iacts that one cannot explain awav. Voting men want to he faithful and are not; old men want to hp Ia i tides* and can. As soon as |>eople are old enough to know better they don't know anvthiuir at all. To Jose one parent may l>e rcgardi>d as a misfortune : to low Iwth look* like carelessness. All women become like their motlier*. That is their tragedy. So man d<**«. That's hi*. It is vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a falsi* impression. Men marry because they are tir»*d, women lj<vaiise they are curious, both are disappointed. When one is in love one always liegins by deceiMiig himself, one alwa.VK ends by deriving others. It is a curious thing about the garni* lof marriage; till* wives hold all the s.nd invariably low* the odd t rick. j \\o!i!iij treat iis just as humanity : 1'!!k god-. They worship us anil an* always furthering us to do wnncihiug for them. 1 In* British cook is a foolish woman who should be turned 'or her iniquitie* into a pillar oi salt which she n«'ver knows how to use. delations are a tedious pack oi pijoplc who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct almut whin to die. Kneh lime that one loves is the only tillle one has ever loved. DiftcrclK'e oi ■ object does not alter singleness of pasj ssfhi. It merely iniensifhns it. 'lit disagree with three-fourths ol the | Hritisli public on all jxiints is one <>! the i IM st '!< :,it .its ol sanity. one ol lh« d«ep|est eonsol.'irkjiis iu all moment* ol itpiritl!id llottbt. There are moments when one has to choose 'eiv/iH ii living one's own hie fully, entirely, completely— <»r dragging out seiM* ials<;, shallow, degrading existence tin-' tin' world hi its hv|H>crisy demand-.