Escritas — Poems List

Louis Pasteur

Without theory, practice is but

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

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Phyllis Chesler

If it were natural for

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

11

Kurt Vonnegut

Another flaw in the human

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

49

Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes, another

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

177

Barbara Stanwyck

Egotism -- usually just a

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

38

Winston Churchill

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

66

Clark Gable

With enough courage, you can

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

22

Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)

Gratitude is the memory of

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

58

Josephine Tey

Lack of education is an

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

31

Hellen Keller

I am only one; but

I am only one; but still I am one. I may not be able to do everything, but still I can do something.

20

Karin Meißenburg

The stability of the whole

The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.

24

Neal A. Maxwell

Eventually, there will not be

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

24

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes it takes courage to

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

73

Gloria Swanson

All creative people should be

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

66

Webster

The world is governed more

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

34

Joseph Smith Jr.

The man who willeth to

The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.

24

Joan Rivers

There is not one female

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

27

Edgar Allan Poe

All that we see or

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

132

Frederick Douglass

You have seen how a

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

46

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It is not bigotry to

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

38

N. W. Dougherty

The ideal engineer is a

The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.

62

Jane Fonda

My husband said he wanted

My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.

64

The Rock

I never wanted to be

I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best.

16

William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the

Turning and turning in the widening gyre,

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