They talk most who have the least to say.
For me, poetry is always a search for order.
Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.
Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.
We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.
I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.
Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.
For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.
The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.
You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.
I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought.
The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.
In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.
Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.
It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
He was as fresh as is the month of May.
It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.
She who has never loved has never lived.
Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.