Poems List

You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

I am wealthy in my friends.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Prima la musica, poi le parole (first the music, then the words)

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.