Escritas - Poems List

Lao Zi

Heaven endures and the earth

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

195

Book of Proverbs

Stupid people always think they

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

15

Benjamin Spock

The more people have studied

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

39

Francis Quarles

Use law and physic only

Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

77

Lao Zi

To conquer others is to

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

198

Publilius Syrus

The eyes are not responsible

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

32

Francis Quarles

In the height of thy

In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

32

Gypsy Smith

You save an old man

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

36

Friedrich Nietzsche

For a significant man

41

Charlie Chaplin

Life is a tragedy when

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot

381

R Chamberlain

A foolish man in wealth

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

18

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

26

Jean Cocteau

The poet is a liar

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

178

Anonymous

Use what talents you possess:

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.

97

Clark Mousakas

Viewing the child solely as

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him

21

R Chamberlain

Harsh reproof is like a

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.

27

Ludwig van Beethoven

No one should drive a

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

90

Bertrand Russell

Change is scientific, progress is

Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

177

Basil W. Maturin

I believe there are few

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

20

R Chamberlain

Outward perfection without inward goodness

Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye on the mind?s deformity.

35

Michel de Montaigne

Since we cannot match it

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

103

Francis of Assisi

If God can work through

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

31

R Chamberlain

Learning is like Scanderbeg?s sword,

Learning is like Scanderbeg?s sword, either good or bad according to him who hath it: an excellent weapon, if well used; otherwise, like a sharp razor in the hand of a child.

21

Eda J. Le Shan

In all our efforts to

In all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

15