All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

A Dutchman was explaining the red, white, and blue Netherlands flag to an American. "Our flag is symbolic of our taxes. We get red when we talk about them, white when we get our tax bills, and blue after we pay them." The American nodded. "It's the same in the USA only we see stars too!".

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

By learning to obey, you will know how to command.

Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy metal music is illogical. It makes just as much sense to reason like this: some nuns like soccer; violence sometimes occurs at soccer matches; therefore, nuns tend to be violent.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.

A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods for a magazine.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chilled hidebound hearts.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Rigid judgmental opinions can block descent of Spirit's pinions.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.