Escritas — Poems List

Katharine Hepburn

I never realized until lately

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

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Robert Cormier

As pity moved into that

As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.

19

George Orwell

Perhaps one did not want

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

50

Leon Trotsky

Old age is the most

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

71

Alan Moore

In this present moment we

In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.

16

Mae West

When women go wrong, men

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

49

George Orwell

Being in a minority, even

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

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H. L. Mencken

The whole aim of practical

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

53

Henry Van Dyke

Time is: Too slow for

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

167

Madame Curie

I never see what has

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

13

Alexander Pushkin

It is better to have

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

41

H. L. Mencken

A home is not a

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

31

Ty-Grace Atkinson

The prostitute is the only

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

21

Colin Turnbull

Civilization is very much an

Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.

23

Oscar Wilde

We are not sent into

We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

135

Joseph Heller

There was no telling what

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

122

Fran Lebowitz

Nothing succeeds like address.

44

Friedrich Nietzsche

One repays a teacher badly

One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.

84

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that sustains

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

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