Poems List

It only hurts your feelings if its true.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

When you deserve something....... Don't expect it, because Expectation is the root cause of dissapointment

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

The “stream” we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.

It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge.

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man's heart into a stone!

But it's hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned was the Lindy, And the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it.

Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.