Poems List

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.

...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Go tell the Spartans,

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.

Quality is never an accident.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows--marriage does.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

I banish fear with two words: you lead.

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Most people ignore most poetry

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!