There are two schools of thought on Nostradamus: either (1) he had supernatural powers which enabled him to prophesy the future with uncanny accuracy, or (2) he did for bullshit what Stonehenge did for rocks.
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The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.
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How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died
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No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild, Jesus Christ her little Child.
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Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
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...the genes almost always accurately reproduce. If they don't, you get one of the following results: One, monsters --that is, grossly malformed babies resulting from genetic mistakes. Years ago most monsters died, but now many can be saved. This has made possible the National Football League.
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We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.
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We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.
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She has a face that belongs to the sea and the wind, with large rocking-horse nostrils and teeth that you just know bite an apple every day.
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Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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All things bright and beautiful All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
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The National Rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
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The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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So little done, so much to do.
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We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.
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Before I started doing drugs, I had so many problems. Now I only have one, drugs. It's given my life real focus.
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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
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The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.
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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.
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Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
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