Poems List

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

The queer Christ is necessary because conservatives are using Christian rhetoric to justify discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

You're a retard.

There are people who had wanted to live longer but could not. My aunt had always been considerate to others. Both my father and I want to convey what she cherished.

The principle of least surprise is not for you only. The principle of least surprise means principle of least my surprise.

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth -- science -- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.

we heard a muffled boom

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.