[PW] Re: ? Oscar Wilde Quote - 'good things in life"

[Simon Cauchi]

On 2/08/2006, at 5:24 AM, SUSAN HANSEN wrote:

> Patron is trying to locate a quote he used to see hanging in Michael's 
> Restaurant in Rochester, MN (yes, we've tried the restaurant and they 
> don't remember it.) He's sure it was Oscar Wilde and went something 
> like "don't bother with the little things but remember the good things 
> in life."   We've looked through many of the quotation pages and 
> didn't spot it. We're hoping maybe it's a favorite of yours!   Thanks.

There's nothing like this among the 137 quotations attributed to Wilde 
in my Collins Dictionary of Quotations.
Wilde, like Voltaire and Shaw, is a person who is credited with many 
things he never said.

Simon Cauchi
<simon.cauchi at xtra.co.nz>