Poems List

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?

This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic.

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Music, when soft voices die,

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.