There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
~quote about Poetry by Robert Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955Motivational Quotes
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
~quotes on Art by Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971 My life is my message.
~sayings on Helping by Mahatma Ghandi In an incredible perversion of justice, former soldiers who sprayed festeringly poisonous chemicals on Vietnam, and now find today that they themselves have been damaged by them, appeal to the people for sympathy and charity. The effects of the defoliant Agent Orange are discussed at length, but not one single newspaper article or hearing that we are aware of has even mentioned the effects of the people who still live in those regions of Vietnam. It's as outlandish as if Nazis who gassed Jews were now to come forward and whine that the poisons they utilized had finally made them sick. The staggering monstrousness goes unlaughed at and even unnoticed, as in a Kafka novel.
~quotations on War by Fred Woodworth, The Match, No. 79 The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm
~day funny mother saying by Fred Dehner It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future
~quote about Self-Determination by Ralph Abernathy Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
~quotes on Perfection by Samuel McChord Crothers What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
~sayings on Censorship by Sigmund Freud, 1933 We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
~quotations on Living by Buddha It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
~day funny mother saying by J. Horace McFarland One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.
~saying about day mother by George Archer I learned a lot about life from my little league footbal coach. He said, "Stay centered, stay focused, stay aggressive, and never ever quit!"
~quote about Sports by Clint Sprague Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
~quotes on Jewelry by Thomas Carlyle Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
~sayings on Children by William Stafford Don't cookDon't cleanNo man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum - "My God, the floor's immaculateLie down, you hot bitch."
~quotations on Women's Greetings by Joan Rivers What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
~day funny mother saying by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark
~saying about day mother by Henry Louis Mencken No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
~quote about Perspective by Charles Dudley Warner There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
~quotes on Art by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.
~sayings on Conformity by Albert Einstein Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
~quotations on Clothing by Roland Barthes Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
~day funny mother saying by Lucy Larcom Remember: I before E, except in Budweiser.
~saying about day mother by Author Unknown Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
~quote about Faith by J.R.R. Tolkien One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
~quotes on Art by Mark Stevens Forgive your enemies...but REMEMBER THEIR NAMES!
~sayings on Humor by Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation.
~quotations on Soccer by Author Unknown Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up
~day funny mother saying by Jesse Jackson History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.
~saying about day mother by Frederic Harrison, The Meaning of History Independence... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
~quote about Community by G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion, 1912 Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
~quotes on Simplicity by Elise Boulding I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension!
~sayings on Retirement by Author Unknown When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
~quotations on Imagination by Tuli Kupferberg [O]f all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
~day funny mother saying by Jane Addams, 1910 The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
~saying about day mother by Germain G. Glien Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask What the hell is wrong with the projector? and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.
~quote about Responsibility by Colin Wilson RUN.bitch.RUN.
~quotes on Attitude by AJM.
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