Poems List

Looking at the waves, cresting then hitting the shore, only to retreat ignominiously back to sea, it reminded me that people are like waves. Their moods shift and turn, then crest before hitting the shore, and only some of the lucky few can ride that wave standing up, smoothly carving an intricate pattern as he or she rides towards a sun blanched shore. At times like this, I always like to quote from Macbeth’s soliloquy in act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, when Macbeth heard of his wife’s death.

It only takes a single line of code to bring a system to its knees.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. -- On Calvin Coolidge

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

You can only be free if I am free.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

The patient always comes first and I strive to deliver personalized dental care to each and every patient.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

A smile takes but a moment, but the memory of it lasts forever.

I gotta have more cowbell!

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.