Poems List

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

If life isn't about humanity, then tell me what it's about, because I'd love to know".

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, Boss you can't do that.

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.