Charles Simic Famous Quotes
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic Quotations
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
J Paul Getty
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
George Burns
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
"If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
Baltasar Gracian
The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.
Polish Proverb
What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby Maybe we'll never know.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
Anne Frank
"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."
Charles Kuralt