About advice:
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depths of generosity.


--Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

A sensitive person is one who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

--Oscar Wilde, The Remarkable Rocket

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

--Oscar Wilde, In Conversation

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

--Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Rebel, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

Moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Lecturer, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass, and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. (from examples of "Epigram")

for Jazzo
Architect, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Accuse, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

Agitator, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors--to dislodge the worms.

Liar, n. A lawyer with a roving commission.

--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Drollness replete...wouldn't you say?