Escritas — Poems List

Len Wein

A true friend is someone

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Conscience is a great moralist

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.

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Martha Beck

Whoever said love is blind

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy…

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Kit Carson

The cowards never start and

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

If what we said cannot

If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!

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Jody Weintraub

This is the start, this

This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start

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Charles M. Schulz

Life is like a ten

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

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George Jean Nathan

Marriage is based on the

Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.

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Carl Weick

Chaotic action is preferable to

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Time, the greatest enemy of

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

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Alan King

If you want to read

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

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John Comenius

To hate a man because

To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.

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Jean Webster

It isn't the great pleasures

It isn't the great pleasures that count the most it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you have a fish

If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.

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Adela Rogers St. Johns

There is so little difference

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

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E. H. Chapin

To me there is something

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Have you ever seen a

Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!

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Daniel Webster

A strong conviction that something

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

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Henry Sedgwick

We think so because other

We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

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Anonymous

Mahatma Gandi was what wives

Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral.

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Daniel Webster

The world is governed more

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

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

High intelligence is to think

High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.

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George Jean Nathan

Politics is the pursuit of

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

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Milton Friedman

There is no free lunch.

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