Poems List

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins!

Life's not fair . . . get over it.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Opposition is true friendship.

“From Conrad Aiken to Flannery O’Connor to Midnight, Savannah has always been a literary town. But certainly one of her most consistently excellent—and consistently underrated—writers is the man known as Aberjhani. Known for his nationally published short stories and poetry Aberjhani has received critical acclaim for his ability to encapsulate the Southern black experience in a sensitive and poignant way that’s accessible to readers of any race or region.” --from All That Jazz

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

L'importante è perseverare, perseverare è diabolico, l'importante è essere diabolici.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

If you don't like your ideas - quit having them!

I stand on my mark and say my lines and I try no to look like an idiot, and if that's no good then bite me!

I believe in children, because they are the most pure and innocent creatures. They are not yet tainted by the world of today. I believe, as adults, we should learn from children and remember our own time on innocence. The youth should be celebrated.

was born to be big. . . . And I ain't disappointing nobody.