"In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin." ― Oscar Wilde Topic(s): Good Tags: modern, nothing, produces More From Oscar Wilde "Hatred is blind, as well as love." "It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes." "There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better." More In Good "These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it."― Charles Barkley "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."― George Orwell "If you don’t have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can’t expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis."― Doug Coupland