Poems List

Our banking system is like a bunch of kids stealing from the cookie jar, and when the central bankers are questioned about it, they lie, or they say they're doing it for our own good - and then we keep putting cookies in the jar - and keep allowing them to steal - when all that's really happening is they're getting a free snack on us. They don't even have to be on their best behavior to get the treat!

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

When you're going through hell, keep going.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

There's a time in your life where you just have to let go, no matter how much you want and need to hold on.

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

Life is easy greediness adds complexity

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

An inquisitive mind is the only means of travelling from the world of expectations to Reality

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.