Escritas - Poems List

Benjamin Disraeli

There are three kinds of

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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William Shakespeare

If Love be rough with

If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

The demands of the science,

The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!

48

The Hitopadesa

In the sandal-tree are serpents,

In the sandal-tree are serpents, in the water lotus flowers, but crocodiles also; even virtues are marred by the vicious?in all enjoyments there is something which impairs our happiness.

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Dolly Parton

It takes a lot of

It takes a lot of money to look as cheap as I do.

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Henry Louis Mencken

For every problem there is

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

110

Mehmet Murat Ildan

In literature, you either create

In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!

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The Hitopadesa

Learning dissipates many doubts, and

Learning dissipates many doubts, and causes things otherwise invisible to be seen, and is the eye of everyone who is not absolutely blind.

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Dolly Parton

A peacock who rests on

A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.

50

Anonymous

Programming today is a race

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

83

Ingrid Weir

Neglecting your health is the

Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.

33

The Hitopadesa

Shall He to thee His

Shall He to thee His aid refuse Who clothes the swan in dazzling white, Who robes in green the parrot bright, The peacocks decks in rainbow hues?*

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J. S. Bach

There is nothing remarkable about

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

34

Woodrow Wilson

You are not here merely

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

68

The Hitopadesa

Frugality should ever be practised,

Frugality should ever be practised, but not excessive parsimony.

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Sana O. Dabbas

You're never really alive until

You're never really alive until you skip a heart-beat, and you don't really skip a heart-beat until you see someone whose smile lights up the whole room.

24

Anonymous

Find expression for a sorrow

Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

89

Clifton Fadiman

A man who is careful

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

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The Hitopadesa

A hundred long leagues is

A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth.

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