emo quotes and sayings and poems

Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Jean-Luc Picard, Stardate 42823.2


I like my coffee like my women: hot, strong, steamy. ~Author Unknown


I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. ~Terri Guillemets


Woman first tempted man to eat; he took to drinking of his own accord. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902


Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic. ~From the movie Bull Durham


Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade. ~James Charlton


Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold


Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Smile - it increases your face value. ~Author Unknown


They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Promise is most given when the least is said. ~George Chapman


Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other. ~Rene Yasenek


It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his twoness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903


The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem." ~Robert Penn Warren, "The Themes of Robert Frost," Hopwood Lecture, 1947


Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret


The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. ~Author Unknown


The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. ~Cesare Pavese


Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow. ~Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers