Escritas — Poems List

Peter Ustinov

Comedy is simply a funny

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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Kedar Joshi

Ask a scientist a very

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

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Albert Einstein

Theories should be as simple

Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh sleep! It is a

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,

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Kedar Joshi

Man is programmed to find

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

31

Peter Ustinov

Did you know that every

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year

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Thomas Hobbes

Appetite, with an opinion of

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

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William Occam

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

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Peter Ustinov

Beliefs are what divide people.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

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Kedar Joshi

Life is a question asked

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

18

Oswald Theodore Avery

Whenever you fall, pick up

Whenever you fall, pick up something

21

James Thurber

Well, if I called the

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

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Kedar Joshi

It is impossible to imagine

It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.

21

Peter Ustinov

Children are the only form

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is the herd-instinct in

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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Pythagoras

It is better wither to

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

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Peter Ustinov

Her virtue was that she

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

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Manisha Koirala

I can't see myself changing

I can't see myself changing nappies and cooking dinner for too long. I'm too independent to live off a man's earnings.

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Alfred Kinsey

The only unnatural sexual act

The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform.

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Cato the Elder

I think the first virtue

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

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Peter Ustinov

By increasing the size of

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

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Manisha Koirala

I refuse to be a

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

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Honoré de Balzac

This coffee plunges into the

This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.

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Saadi

Nothing is so good for

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

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