Escritas — Poems List

Groucho Marx

You are only as old

You are only as old as the woman you feel.

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Christopher Morley

There are three ingredients to

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

113

Tillotson

A more glorious victory cannot

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part the kindness should begin on ours.

29

Joseph Addison

To be exempt from the

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

42

Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

26

Gaius Valerius Catullus

I love and I hate.

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

24

Tillotson

It is difficult to personate

It is difficult to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.

14

Robert Ingersoll

If we are immortal it

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

17

Oscar Wilde

The fact is, that civilization

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

108

Sir Walter Scott

To all, to each, a

To all, to each, a fair good night,

35

Leonardo da Vinci

While I thought that I

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

103

J. R. R. Tolkien

I love you. I used

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.

70

Oscar Wilde

To be good, according to

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

103

Martin Luther King Jr

I submit that an individual

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

291

Muhammad Ali

The man who views the

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

334

Mark Twain

Never tell the truth to

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

166

Oscar Wilde

The English country gentleman galloping

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

98

Elihu Burritt

Forming characters! Whose? Our own

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

23

J. R. R. Tolkien

The deeds will not be

The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

63

Delmore Schwartz

Major writing is to say

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

16

Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God,

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

72

Thomas Campbell

Cease, every joy, to glimmer

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,

32

Henny Youngman

What's the use of happiness?

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

84

Bill Watterson

I think of football as

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

81