Poems List

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . .

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.

Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold?fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom.

Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

(i do not know what it is about you that closes

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is

A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.*

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect.

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing

If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.*

I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME!

One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Men say that everyone is naturally a lover of himself, and that it is right that it should be so. This is a mistake; for in fact the cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved, so that he passes a wrong judgment upon what is just, good, and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honour what belongs to himself, in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.