“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”— Oscar Wilde Related Quotes “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”– Peter Marshall “Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.”— Truman Capote “I’m a ‘tweener,’ man! I couldn’t march with Dr. King and them. And I’m too old to be a hip-hopper. But I’ve been granted honorary status in each generation… I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.”— Michael Eric Dyson