Escritas — Poems List

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Bible tells us to

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

55

John Wilmot

Before I got married I

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

69

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am in fact a

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.

52

Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

89

James Joyce

I call that a scumhead.

169

Samuel Johnson

Wine makes a man more

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

60

J. K. Rowling

Humans have a knack for

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

51

T. S. Eliot

It is impossible to say

It is impossible to say just what I mean!

211

Dorothy Parker

Coolidge is dead

Coolidge is dead"

118

Sidney J. Harris

Regret for the things we

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

25

Punjabi proverb

He was burned, so he

He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.

19

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I require myself not to

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

101

Aldous Huxley

At least two-thirds of our

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

108

Red Skelton

I get plenty of exercise

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

63

C. S. Lewis

I have found a desire

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

39

William Shakespeare

Things are neither good nor

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

145

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

47

Lady Astor and William Churchill

If you were my husband,

If you were my husband, i would feed you poison."

20

Benjamin Franklin

He is a fool that

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

251

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If a rhinoceros were to

If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

88

Abba Eban

He has a splendid repertoire

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?

100

Bertrand Russell

The main things which seem

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

148

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

The more things change, the

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

19

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.

170