Poems List

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

You have to sit by the side of a river for a *very* long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Service without selfness, is not service

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein.

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.

Tomorrow is another promising day

The friendly cow all red and white,

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

'Resource-constrained environment' are fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to go around.

Cheap, people can be.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,