Escritas — Poems List

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

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Barack Obama

Politics didn't lead me to

Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

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Benjamin Disraeli

The best way to become

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

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Ogden Nash

Progress might have been all

Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have not seen any

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

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Edith Wharton

There are two ways of

There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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Clare Booth Luce

Censorship, like charity, should begin

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

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Henry Havelock Ellis

What we call progress is

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

We can drink soup with

We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!

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Edith Wharton

If only we'd stop trying

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

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Mark Twain

I have never let my

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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Sigmund Freud

I have found little that

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.

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Edith Wharton

Another unsettling element in modern

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a hungry man, green

For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

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Laurence J. Peter

Every man serves a useful

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is more ape than

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

If I find God's mobile

If I find God's mobile number, I wouldn't call Him, that would be too expensive!..

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Earl Warren

It is the spirit and

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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Robert W. Sarnoff

Finance is the art of

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

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André Malraux

What is a man? A

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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Earl Warren

I'm very pleased with each

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to own

If you want to own the Sun, you must first understand candle.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

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Albert Camus

Charm is a way of

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

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