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Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

- John Ciardi | Civilization Quotes

(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

- John Ciardi | Conviction and Belief Quotes

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

- John Ciardi | Courage and Bravery Quotes

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

- John Ciardi | Education Quotes

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

- John Ciardi | Heredity Quotes

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

- John Ciardi | Painters and Painting Quotes

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

- John Ciardi | Parenthood Quotes

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

- John Ciardi | War Quotes

You have to fall in love with hanging around words.

- John Ciardi | Words and Language Quotes

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

- John Ciardi | Writers and Writing Quotes

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

- John Ciardi | Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Quotes