Poems List

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, nor more wise when he had.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.

Read good, big important things.

Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.