quotes and poems

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. ~Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook



War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ~Thomas Mann



Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. ~Hafez



The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~Author Unknown



History... is an aggregation of truths, half-truths, semi-truths, fables, myths, rumors, prejudices, personal narratives, gossip, and official prevarications. It is a canvas upon which thousands of artists throughout the ages have splashed their conceptions and interpretations of a day and an era. Some motifs are grotesque and some are magnificent. ~Philip D. Jordan



The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett



When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ~Edith Evans



Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. ~Theodore Geisel



If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ~George Bernard Shaw



Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ~A.A. Milne



Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett



the civil service examination. ~Ronald Reagan



One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ~Thomas Carlyle



What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ~Alan Paton



What is a promiscuous person? It is usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. ~Victor Lownes, Playboy, 1985



The power inside you is energy amplified. ~Claire Todae



Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire



Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. ~Pascal, Pensees, 1670



Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. ~Norman Mailer

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