Poems List

Cato the Elder

It is thus with farming,

It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

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Cato the Elder

The best way to keep

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

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Katharine Hepburn

If you give an audience

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

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Cato the Elder

It is a difficult matter

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

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Katharine Hepburn

To keep your character intact

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

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Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the perfect idiot's

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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Katharine Hepburn

My greatest strength is... common

My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

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Katharine Hepburn

As for me, prizes are

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

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Clare Boothe Luce

A man's home may seem

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

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Katharine Hepburn

The average Hollywood film star's

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

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Clare Boothe Luce

No woman has ever so

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. -- On Eleanor Roosevelt

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Clare Boothe Luce

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

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Clare Boothe Luce

Male supremacy has kept woman

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

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Clare Boothe Luce

You know, that's the only

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

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Clare Boothe Luce

Communism is the opiate of

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals -- With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

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Clare Boothe Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties,

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

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Clare Boothe Luce

A man has only one

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

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Clare Boothe Luce

In politics women type the

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

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Earl Nightingale

Am I motivated by what

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?

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Earl Nightingale

Our attitude toward life determines

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

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Earl Nightingale

To give oneself is the

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

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Earl Nightingale

People with goals succeed because

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

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Earl Nightingale

The mind moves in the

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

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Earl Nightingale

The biggest mistake that you

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

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