Poems List

A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Diplomacy is only important when the other party has the upper hand.

Fear is the mind killer

Personally I don't care to watch a bunch of millionaires throw balls at each other.

Back to you...........f*ckers!" Said while speaking on live television from Niagra Falls.

If you burn a bridge be prepared to swim.

Four out of Five Dentist think that the Fifth Dentist is an idiot.

When the owl sings, the night is silent. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence)

I hate Sodium Nitrate - Johnny The Walker

Some people say that you should fight fire with fire but I say you should fight fire with water.