Escritas — Poems List

Lady Bird Johnson

The First Lady is an

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband.

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Paul Valéry

Love is being stupid together.

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Victor Hugo

Do you know what friendship

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

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Jane Austen

Seldom, very seldom, does complete

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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P. E. Morris

You are 87% water; the

You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.

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Clare Booth Luce

They say that women talk

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

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Augusten Burroughs

I myself am made entirely

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

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Hubert Humphrey

When the dignity of one

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

25

Dave Barry

What happens if a big

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

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Clare Booth Luce

Politician talk themselves red, white,

Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

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William Sloane Coffin

Human beings who blind themselves

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

14

Lao Zi

The Tao that can be

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.

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Stephen Wright

Black holes are where God

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

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Dame Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

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English Proverb

If you want to be

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;

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William Sloane Coffin

The world is too dangerous

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

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Mae West

I believe in censorship. I

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

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Les Brown

Shoot for the moon. Even

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

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Douglas Adams

My doctor says that I

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes.

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