Poems List

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to.

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know --

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten

On with the dance! Let joy be undefined!

Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.