Paradox proverbs

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◆ If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

- George Carlin99

◆ We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

- Rita Mae Brown99

◆ It's weird not to be weird.

- John Lennon99

◆ Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

- Jon Stewart99

◆ Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

- Ellen DeGeneres99

◆ The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

- Marcel Proust98

◆ It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

- Brad Henry98

◆ There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

- Lukas Foss98

◆ The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

- James A Baldwin98