Escritas — Poems List

Joan Rivers

I have flabby thighs, but

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

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Isaac Newton

By always thinking unto them.

By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.

412

Helen Keller

When one door of happiness

When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

148

Lord Alfred Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

68

Clare Booth Luce

There is nothing like a

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

70

John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies, not in

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

112

Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed are the forgetful, for

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.

72

Edmund Waller

Go, lovely rose!

22

Archimedes

Give me a place to

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.

99

Xaviera Hollander

The world wants to be

The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.

45

Ramakrishna

Have love for everyone, no

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.

17

Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

162

Winston Churchill

If you are not a

If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

82

Rita Mae Brown

If the world were a

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

37

Theodore Roosevelt

Spend and be spent.

39

Jimi Hendrix

When the power of love

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.

347

Laurie Colwin

Friendship is not possible between

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

25

Honoré de Balzac

Imagination helps bring out the

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

39

Carey Bowman

The noblest of men deserves

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

12

Janeane Garofalo

I guess I just prefer

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

105

Alfred Hitchcock

Television has brought murder back

Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs.

37

Alison Lurie

We can lie in the

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

24

John Wayne

A man has to have

A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.

73

Lou Reed

Between thought and expression lies

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

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