Poems List

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

“I don’t interfere with my sons’ business decisions, but if my opinion is sought out, I will tell them what I think. They don’t always listen to what I have to say, though,”

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

With all humility, I think, Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Frisbees are like towels - you should never leave home without one.

˙ǝʌıʇɔǝdsɹǝd ɹnoʎ ||ɐ sʇı ʇnq 'pǝƃuɐɥɔ sɐɥ p|ɹoʍ ǝɥʇ ǝʞı| ɯǝǝs ʎɐɯ ʇı - sɹɐq ʎǝʞuoɯ ǝɥʇ ɯoɹɟ ƃuıƃuɐɥ ǝʞı| sı ɹǝp|o ƃuıʍoɹƃ

i guess this kills our chance for dinner saturday nght huh?

Just forget me... No reason. When it ends, it ends.

I didn't say anything.

do i know you? now i am very scared of guns mister so please do not point that in my face

I guess this ruins our chance for dinner saturday night, huh?

Hey babyI only got one thing to say to you, you know what that is? I don't like the tone of your voice!

I'm gonna become a civil engineer. I'm gonna design septic tanks for playgrounds. Little kids can take shits!

There is nothing on earth that complex