Poems List

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them.

Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.