Escritas — Poems List

Sun Tzu

To conquer the enemy without

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

315

Lord Byron

For the sword outwears its

For the sword outwears its sheath,

70

Cory Doctorow

Engineers are all basically high-functioning

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

92

Martin Luther King Jr

The church was not merely

The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

340

Robin Tyler

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.

14

Henry David Thoreau

In what concerns you much,

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

87

Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

355

Charles Baudelaire

I consider it useless and

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

354

Richard Baxter

In necessary things, unity; in

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

35

Doug Tygar

The woman of my dreams

The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems.

18

Charles Baudelaire

Poetry and progress are like

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

354

Confucius

Do not be desirous of

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

178

William Shakespeare

Lady you bereft me of

Lady you bereft me of all words,

166

Arthur C. Clarke

We are just tenants on

We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.

22

Charles Baudelaire

We are weighed down, every

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

424

Steve Biko

You cannot keep a man

You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him.

33

Mark Twain

If a person offend you

If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.

133

William Shakespeare

I wish you well and

I wish you well and so I take my leave,

179

Robert Heinlein

Love is the condition in

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

48

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

450

John Dryden

Happy the man, and happy

Happy the man, and happy he alone,

68

Mark Twain

How come we rejoice at

How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

138

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

People are like stained glass

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.

44

James Thurber

Human Dignity has gleamed only

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

103