Escritas - Poems List

Helen Hayes

If you rest, you rust.

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Jane Austen

What dreadful weather we have!

What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

50

Philemon

In this thing one man

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

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Ernest Dimnet

Americans cannot realize how many

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

57

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Since when was genius found

Since when was genius found respectable?

230

Ovid

Judgement of beauty can err,

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

164

Pindar

I hate the miser, whose

I hate the miser, whose unsocial breast Locks from the world his useless stores. Wealth by the bounteous only is enjoyed, Whose treasures, in diffusive good employed, The rich return of fame and friends procure, And ?gainst a sad reverse a safe retreat secure.

78

Bruce Burton

For good or ill, your

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

29

Woody Allen

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

106

Ethel Barrymoore

You grow up the day

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.

23

Atwell

The art of conversation consist

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

75

Pindar

To our own sorrows serious

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

60

Gerald Burrill

The difference between a rut

The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

30

Don Quixote

Too much sanity may be

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

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Pindar

Very distasteful is excessive fame

Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find.

116

Anonymous

The biggest shortage of all

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

100

Sue Patton Thoele

At the center of each

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

19

Nicholai Velimirovic

Be humble, for the worst

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.

19

Pindar

To be envied is a

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

75

Anonymous

A handful of common sense

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

99

Will Rodgers

The budget is like a

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

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George S. Patton

If man does his best

If man does his best what else is there?

113

Pindar

Wrapt up in error is

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

101

C. E. Stowe

Common sense is the knack

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

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