Poems List

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

Eminent positions make eminent men greater and little men less.

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!

Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches.

Lifes a maze, you have to keep trying until you hit the right path

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Arbeit macht frei. (Work sets you free).

Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!

Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.

Women are ever in extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!

In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair.

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.

When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!

The greater part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

We are more sociable and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.