Poems List

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

How frequently the last time comes and we do not know.

Canada: A few acres of snow.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen.

Being on the tightrope is living everything else is waiting.

Feminism is the radical concept that women are people.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable and those who move.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

A penny for your thoughts?

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.”

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Experience is the best teacher- Personal but also vicarious

Have you even been in love Horrible, isn't it It makes you so vulnrable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.