Poems List

I dont trust words -- I trust pictures.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."

It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Exceeding your own expectations can often leave things incomplete

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.

It isn't possible to love and part...you can transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. Love is eternal

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

To Thine Ownself Be True

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.

Enjoy your Life to the fullest , 'cause this is the time to see the world ; This time wont again again.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.