Poems List

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

Why think? Why not try the experiment?

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!

What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

They say “Wine is Satan's falcon,”; apparently he uses it in hunting men!

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.