Poems List

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one.

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

A good man?s intellect is piercing, yet inflicts no wound; his actions are deliberate, yet bold; his heart is warm, but never burns; his speech is eloquent, yet ever true.

The majority-rule society has produced nothing more than heart-ache and intolerance. Throughout this majority-rule period it has been the members of the minority who have made an impact. It only takes one person to kill a hundred. It only takes one dictator to oppress millions. For better or for worse, it is the daring few who have shaped this so-called majority-rule society.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

The more toys children have, the less likely that they would enjoy any of them.

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.

A man should never despise himself, for brilliant success never attends on the man who is contemned by himself.

The more you understand politics, the more you realize that you mustn't move.

If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Such deeds as thou with fear and grief Wouldst, on a sick-bed laid, recall, In youth and health eschew them all, Remembering life is frail and brief.

The more you learn about the law, the more you realize there is no such thing as 'the law'.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The most private essence of a person's fiber can only be measured by deed; not through written tests.

Heaven?s gate is narrow and minute,* It cannot be perceived by foolish men, Blinded by vain illusions of the world. E?en the clear-sighted, who discern the way And seek to enter, find the portal barred And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts Are pride and passion, avarice and lust.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Rich presents, though profusely given, Are not so dear to righteous Heaven As gifts by honest gains supplied, Though small, which faith hath sanctified.

The only thing that bottled orange juice has going for it, is its attractive colour.