Poems List

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

This place makes Mayberry look like a think tank.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality.

The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.