A Quote by Oscar Wilde

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

Oscar Wilde

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Badly Die Easier Few Few Things Live Than Things Well

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

It is better to die well than to live badly.

Jan Hus

Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation or a diminished career or reputation. These things he must live with. To die for honor is an easier thought to bear.

Michael Josephson

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Aeschylus

Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.

John Dos Passos

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.

Tite Kubo

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Diane de Poitiers

It is easier to die bravely than to live so.

Christian Nestell Bovee

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it's easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

Peter Drucker

Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

Gretchen Rubin

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

J. K. Rowling

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

Naveen Jain

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

Naveen Jain

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.