Escritas — Poems List

J. C. Watts

Character is doing the right

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

No sheep can be a

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

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Simone Weil

Culture is an instrument wielded

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Treat people as if they

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

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Aaron J. Munzer

I don't negotiate with psychiatrists.

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Isaac Watts

Do not hover always on

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

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Karen Horney

Concern should drive us into

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

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Dave Barry

Life is anything that dies

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Stay calm inside! You will

Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.

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Isaac Watts

Do not expect to arrive

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

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En Vogue

Free your mind, and the

Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don't be so shallow.

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Leo Tolstoy

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

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Evelyn Waugh

It is a curious thing...

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

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Aaron J. Munzer

Humour is a cog in

Humour is a cog in the machine we call love.

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Giacomo Leopardi

People are ridiculous only when

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Jesus died too soon. If

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

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Evelyn Waugh

What is youth except a

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen

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Aaron J. Munzer

I'm your Knight in shining

I'm your Knight in shining shoes.

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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Jesus was a crackpot.

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H.T. Leslie

The game of life is

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

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Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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Aaron J. Munzer

If you don't like what

If you don't like what I am screw you.

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Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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Woody Allen

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances

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

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