Poems List

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol How about the pillow It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

History's lessons are no more enlightening than the wisdom of those who interpret them.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Alexandra Fedorovna pronounced Russian words with a heavy accent, and it was noticebale that speaking Russian was hard for her ...[she] pronounced each phrase with difficulty, and with a German accent — just like a foreigner who had learned the Russian language from books, and not from practice.

Johannes was something of a Renaissance man. First of all, artist. Then author, historian, archivist and even sort-of farmer. Above all, he was a thoughtful, loving and loveable human being who thought very deeply about the human condition

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody First, take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled-up napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.