Escritas — Poems List

Emily Bronte

Any relic of the dead

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

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Joe E. Lewis

You only live once -

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

66

Emily Bronte

Vain are the thousand creeds

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

36

Jack Handey

If I ever do a

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.

15

Arthur Schopenhauer

Noise is the most impertinent

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.

108

Cesar Millan

Stay calm and assertive

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Cesar Millan

Exercise, Discipline, then Affection.

100

P. G. Wodehouse

Boyhood, like measles, is one

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

56

Joan Lunden

Holding on to anger, resentment

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

22

Cesar Millan

Rules, boundaries, and limitations

119

Charles de Leusse

Revenge tightens the heart as

Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur Autant que la mâchoire)

29

Jack Handey

If you're a cowboy, and

If you're a cowboy, and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.

49

Arthur Schopenhauer

The memory should be specially

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

141

Robert Browning

Where the apple reddens never

Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

297

Robert Browning

Inscribe all human effort with

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

193

P. G. Wodehouse

The fascination of shooting as

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

41

Hal Lancaster

Getting fired is nature's way

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

26

Robert Browning

Ambition is not what man

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

208

Robert Browning

My sun sets to rise

My sun sets to rise again.

241

Jack Handey

When you go ice-skating, try

When you go ice-skating, try not to swing your arms too much, because that really annoys me.

16

Robert Browning

Never the time and the

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

231

Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

92

Robert Browning

So free we seem, so

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

200

P. G. Wodehouse

At the age of eleven

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

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