A Quote by Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

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

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

Douglas Fairbanks

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

Elspeth Huxley

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

A. A. Milne

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Benjamin Franklin

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Robert Benchley

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

Bertrand Russell

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.

Jean Ferris

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

Max Born

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

John Gregory Dunne

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

Winston Churchill

In my professional and personal life, when I meet people who feel broken after a divorce, they can usually be divided into two categories: those who truly believe there's something wrong with them, and those that are using their status as armor.

Emily V. Gordon

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.