Poems List

Crederci sempre!

How simple is to be happy, how difficult to be simple

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

She went through things with the Frank family as if it was her own family. Not that she talked a lot about it, she actually never did, but the fact that she named her daughter after Anne Frank shows that Bep reserved a special place in her heart for Anne.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

If we have ethics, we will not need a code. The code is to regulate those who have no ethics.

Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new fount to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

Political is personal; personal is political. I never was a political person until I realized I was a lesbian. I was this oblivious middle-class white kid who didn’t understand the powers of oppression or structure or anything. My very existence became politicized for me and that’s what enabled me to see all these things. It wasn’t just me, it was a whole cultural movement that was also doing those things that I was a part of.

You may be great to serve under, difficult to serve alongside, but you sure are hell to serve over!

I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.

The first time I was nominated, I didn't know anything about the Oscars. That was almost 15 years ago. I just did Oscar week and enjoyed it very much because I was with my mum. Even so, each time it's happened I've come down with some ghastly infection. It is overwhelming for people. It has nothing to do really at all with your performance. It comes down to if you get an Oscar for your film, then the revenue for your film goes up. They mean a great deal. I can't deny it.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily!

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.