Poems List

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

The secret to life is that there is no secret.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

To see a world in a Grain of Sand,

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?

A poem is no place for an idea.

The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife,