Poems List

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.

Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

I think a new, different kind of bowling should be 'carpet bowling.' It's just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood. I don't know why we should do this, but my God, we've got to try something

give me faith not religion...

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history.

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work You don't give up.

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

When the age of the Vikings came to a close, they must have sensed it. Probably, they gathered together one evening, slapped each other on the back and said, 'Hey, good job.'

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now.