Escritas — Poems List

Voltaire

When its a question of

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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Dr. Jose P. Rizal

I believe in revelation, but

I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess... but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side — mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.

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William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

Start every day with a

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

18

Noël Coward

Your motivation? Your motivation is

Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

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Dr. Jose P. Rizal

No, let us not make

No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

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Voltaire

One great use of words

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

California is the only state

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

32

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

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Voltaire

Philosopher A lover of wisdom,

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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Dr. Jose P. Rizal

To doubt God is to

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

41

Alexander Jablokov

The road to truth is

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards

44

Damon Runyon

It may not be that

It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

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Voltaire

Love truth, but pardon error.

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Mike Zmija

Love is dialougue, not monolougue

10

Cyrus H. Curtis

There are two kinds of

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

24

Lord Chesterfield

Wit is so shining a

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

16

Voltaire

Dans ce pays-ci il est

Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)

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