Poems List

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

Obviously something slipped through here.

A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.

We have to save the world before we can live in it

Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.

Perfection is only a standard set by the human mind as to what it desires.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Pamper yourself as if GOD made you the Ambassador of Perfection!!!!!

The historian is a prophet in reverse.

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

If life was perfect...... There would be nothing worth living for!!!

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

You never realize what a good girl means untill you Know a bad girl .

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.