Steve Jobs - Quotes

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people.

I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success — I have no problem with their success.

They’ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being WalMart. We make it by innovation.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

I would trade all my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Stay hungry, Stay foolish.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

If today were the last day of my life, Would I want to do what I’m about to do today?

And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains.

William Shakespeare - Quotes

Listen to many, Speak to a few.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

What a piece of work is a man!

How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties!

In form and moving, how express and admirable!

In action how like an angel!

In apprehension how like a god!

The beauty of the world!

The paragon of animals!

And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Speak low, if you speak love.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Time is very slow for those who wait,

Very fast for those who are scared,

Very long for those who lament,

Very short for those who celebrate,

But for those who love, time is eternal.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

If you love and get hurt, love more.

If you love more and hurt more, love even more.

If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more...

Nothing will come of nothing; we must dare mighty things.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

A light heart lives long.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Beware the ides of March.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

The object of Art is to give life a shape.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor…If you love me, I'll always be in your heart…

If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

All's well if all ends well.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.

What's done cannot be undone.

A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief.

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Charlie Chaplin - Quotes

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Humor is the sublime wisdom of pity and tolerance in which man recognizes the utter futility of his own enterprise and importance.

Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

In the end, everything is a gag.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

We think too much and feel too little.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.

But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It puts me on a far higher place than any politician.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Charles Dickens - Quotes

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

To a young heart everything is fun.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her.

Discipline must be maintained.

Charles Darwin - Quotes

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Confucius - Quotes

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

Shall I teach you what knowledge?

When you know a thing, say that you know it; when you do not know a thing, admit that you do not know it. That is knowledge.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

He who keeps danger in mind will rest safely in his seat.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

The funniest people are the saddest once.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Bill Cosby - Quotes

Every Closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

A word to the wise ain’t necessary, It’s the stupid ones who need advice.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that

Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.

Gray hair is Gods graffiti.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers. Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

All Children Have Brain Damage!

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

If you want to be seen, stand up.

If you want to be heard, speak up.

If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show

that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children?

Those who've never had any.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

Bill Gates - Quotes

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Patience is a key element of success.

… No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year -- if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

I studied everything but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Life's not fair, get over it!

In china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Benjamin Franklin - Quotes

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Honesty is the best policy.

Buddha - Quotes

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

What we think, we become.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering - an image of death.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Don'T Go Far Off by Pablo Neruda

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying? 

Do not go gentle into that good night by: Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Alone by: EDGAR ALLAN POE

From childhood’s hour I have not been 

As others were—I have not seen 

As others saw—I could not bring 

My passions from a common spring— 

From the same source I have not taken 

My sorrow—I could not awaken 

My heart to joy at the same tone— 

And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— 

Then—in my childhood—in the dawn 

Of a most stormy life—was drawn 

From ev’ry depth of good and ill 

The mystery which binds me still— 

From the torrent, or the fountain— 

From the red cliff of the mountain— 

From the sun that ’round me roll’d 

In its autumn tint of gold— 

From the lightning in the sky 

As it pass’d me flying by— 

From the thunder, and the storm— 

And the cloud that took the form 

(When the rest of Heaven was blue) 

Of a demon in my view—

Warning by Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple

As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes

It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
Bright like a sun—
My dream.
And then the wall rose,
Rose slowly,
Slowly,
Between me and my dream.
Rose until it touched the sky—
The wall.
Shadow.
I am black.
I lie down in the shadow.
No longer the light of my dream before me,
Above me.
Only the thick wall.
Only the shadow.
My hands!
My dark hands!
Break through the wall!
Find my dream!
Help me to shatter this darkness,
To smash this night,
To break this shadow
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams
Of sun!

Invictus BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

Out of the night that covers me, 

      Black as the pit from pole to pole, 

I thank whatever gods may be 

      For my unconquerable soul. 

In the fell clutch of circumstance 

      I have not winced nor cried aloud. 

Under the bludgeonings of chance 

      My head is bloody, but unbowed. 

Beyond this place of wrath and tears 

      Looms but the Horror of the shade, 

And yet the menace of the years 

      Finds and shall find me unafraid. 

It matters not how strait the gate, 

      How charged with punishments the scroll, 

I am the master of my fate, 

      I am the captain of my soul. 

Television by Roald Dahl

The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink --
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.

Fire and Ice BY:ROBERT FROST

Some say the world will end in fire, 

Some say in ice. 

From what I’ve tasted of desire 

I hold with those who favor fire. 

But if it had to perish twice, 

I think I know enough of hate 

To say that for destruction ice 

Is also great And would suffice.

A Dream Within a Dream by: EDGAR ALLAN POE

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow —

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?  

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand —

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep — while I weep!

O God! Can I not grasp 

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?