Poems List

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Is sex dirty? Only if you do it right.

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

This Englishwoman is so refined

Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;