Escritas — Poems List

Amy Vanderbilt

Do not speak of repulsive

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

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Barack Obama

America's strong bonds with Israel

America's strong bonds with Israel are well known - this bond is unbreakable.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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Amy Vanderbilt

The modern rule is that

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

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Barack Obama

Yes, we can!

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Theodore Roosevelt

Far better it is to

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

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Albert Einstein

You see, wire telegraph is

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

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Barack Obama

What Washington needs is adult

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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Amy Vanderbilt

Everyone knows that a man

Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him. (from the Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952)

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Alan Holbrook

Women and cats do as

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

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Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

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Amy Vanderbilt

Parents must get across the

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

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Julian the Apostate

The idea of an incarnation

The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."

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Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed,

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

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Barack Obama

I think when you spread

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

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Bill Vaughan

A citizen of America will

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sweet has its sour;

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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David Hume

If we take in our

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

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Bill Vaughan

If there is anything the

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

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Barack Obama

I don't oppose all wars.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

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Dennis Miller

I have the distinction of

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

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Sophocles

One word frees us of

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

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