your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men are killers and
your worst men are
selling them
bullets
Charles Bukowski
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Men of few words are the best men."
(3.2.41)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.
ABERJHANI Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER I’ll give you one chance to run,
but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear…
RYAN GOODRICH girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLE
You can
Lose a child
Or a parent,
The lov...
SUZY KASSEM We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with s...
T.S. ELIOT may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing ...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.
Princes were privileg'd
To kill, and numbers ...
BISHOP BEILBY PORTEUS God abides in men"
"God abides in men,
These are men who are simple,
they are f...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..."
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me a...
RUDYARD KIPLING may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they si...
E.E. CUMMINGS Dream!
Forge yourself and rise
Out of your mind and into others.
Men, be women.
...
CLIVE BARKER To Your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday come and gone, no more than a watch in the night. ANONYMOUS Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond C...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' p...
ROBERT BURNS It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day
It will begin to happen
Again o...
شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی you are the light
that most men
will never deserve
R.H. SIN The Source …
Who are You
Where lay your path
Why be on your journey
...
T...
NEENA VERMA who are you
really?
you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
M.K Wise with Your Words.
Speak words that support your highest good. Are your thoughts buil...
SUSAN C. YOUNG Open your eyes
Open your ears
Open your mind
Open your heart
They are your porta...
LISA CYPERS KAMEN For all your years prepare,
And meet them ever alike;
When you are the anvil, bear--
...
EDWIN MARKHAM Overheard on a Saltmarsh"
Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?
Green glass, gobl...
HAROLD MONRO Remember:
all the thoughts you have
of yourself and others
are written on your face...
KAMAND KOJOURI LOVE IS A FLOWER
Treat your relationship
As if you are growing
The most beautif...
SUZY KASSEM They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My teachings are easy to understand
and easy to put into practice.
Yet your intellect wil...
LAO TZU And the best and the worst of this is
That neither is most to blame,
If you have forgotten...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing...
SOURCE UNKNOWN No!
I don’t love you!
I just like you, a little.
Your lips are sweet,
an...
ZORICA SAVRON Your eyes are the light of your heart and do not make your soul dark”.
Ravi Satha...
RAVI SATHAIVAM / SRI LANKA I loved you, so I drew these tides of
Men into my hands
And wrote my will across the
...
T.E. LAWRENCE Whether you're the best lawyer...
Or the greatest philosopher...
There will alway be at le...
NELSON M. LUBAO Oh Child
Look within
Find your ForeMothers
Find them
Fi...
MALEBO SEPHODI Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX so your father told you once
that you were his princess
you won't see the castle
you ...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS Delight in your weaknesses because they make you stronger
Delight in your imperfections because...
EVY MICHAELS And there you are
on the shore,
fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER Steadfast Seas and Mountains
The lofty mountains and the seas,
Being mountains, bei...
REIKO CHIBA Men who for truth and honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while other...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!
If you could untie y...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If y...
RUDYARD KIPLING Some are sad.
And some are glad.
And some are very, very bad.
Why are the...
DR. SEUSS Your fangs are showing, Miss Lyndon."
"Are they?" she asked, reaching up to touch her fac...
JULIA QUINN Let us go where skins are rainbows
Enhanced by every hue.
Where genders are clouds KAMAND KOJOURI YOUR TWIN-FLAME IS ON BACK ORDER.
THE HEAVENLY FATHER IS BUILDING YOUR SOULMATE TAILOR MADE FOR...
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
...
JOHN DONNE put some honey and sea
water by your bed.
acknowledge. that your being needs sweetness
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Japanese goldfish,
With your gossamer tail,
You are the loveliest creature
I have eve...
PAUL GALLICO The nurse snorted, and said. “All men are pigs.”
“Not all men.” Jango said. “Some of...
CEDRIC NYE Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE
People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run o...
NIKITTA GILL your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are wa...
SANOBER KHAN Judging others is just wasting your time,
giving your advice to men who don't pay.
TOBA BETA The greatest thinkers
have attempted to find
who we are
where we come from
a...
KAMAND KOJOURI Wake up.
If your eyes are sleeping
then wipe them gently.
You need to be awake for...
KAMAND KOJOURI Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let your wisdom guide you
On your own personal journey
By listening to your heart
Yo...
KAREN HACKEL If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If ...
RUDYARD KIPLING GOD, give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hand...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best.
That's pity. Much better men let them...
TOBA BETA Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might.
-Oromis
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Dreaming at the Ballet"
The truth is, goddesses are lousy in bed.
They will do anyth...
JACK GILBERT Dreams are like stars,
you may never catch them
but if you follow them
they will lead...
LIAM PAYNE Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her ...
RUPI KAUR Some men call her cyanide
For she'll cause and take your pain.
To others she's the devil PHAR WEST NAGLE And what's care?
What's coldness?
Why you are so foolish of your freedom?
... DEYTH BANGER REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS
Before you were born,
And were still too tiny for
The h...
SUZY KASSEM your gaze
across
my cheeks
turned them
into
strawberry fields.
SANOBER KHAN The Type
Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken SARAH KAY 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT But it's a child! You're a man!"
"Your powers of observation are formidable...
KATHERINE RUNDELL
The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and se...
KENT M. KEITH The man, most man,
Works best for men, and, if most men indeed,
He gets his manhood plainest f...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Whe...
RICHARD BACH Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!
Don’t
be caught up in yo...
ALLAN RUFUS Money's scarce
Times are hard
Here's your fucking
Xmas card
PHYLLIS DILLER God creates monsters. Women encourage them."
"That sounds like a tract by Nancy O'Brien. Althou...
JOYCE HABER GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying :
And this same flower that smil...
ROBERT HERRICK REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS
Before you were born,
And were still too tiny for
The h...
SUZY KASSEM YOUR GREATER ANIMAL
They say that if you are
Ever confronted by
A lion or...
SUZY KASSEM i love good cries,
loud sobs that soak your pillow
that kind that come at the end
of ...
MADISEN KUHN Didn’t anyone ask you where your parents are?"
"They asked. Especially about my parents."
JUSTINE LARBALESTIER Play to your strengths."
"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
J.K. ROWLING Being the best you can be
takes courage. You need to own
your decisions and have the
...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart
And your plans are upset and your world ...
HELEN STEINER RICE never believe a man can change a woman
those men are pretenders
who think
that they c...
نزار قباني Every one of us, at some time or another, has allowed fear to prevent us from living our best possib...
SUSAN C. YOUNG You.
Your smile.
Your voice.
Your eyes.
Your personality.
You.
TAMARA STAMENKOVIC My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others bec...
MOLIèRE The truckers are staring," I said after a few seconds.
It was true. They were. The whole ...
NICK BURD When the wind blows in your face,
when you feel you are losing your head,
when the going g...
MALAK EL HALABI MOTHER IS WATER
I wish I could
Shower your head with flowers
And anoint your fe...
SUZY KASSEM The minority (the considered one percent of the one percent of the one percent of the one percent of...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
I...
MOTHER TERESA Watch, O Lord,
with those who wake,
or watch or weep tonight,
and give your angels ch...
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low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
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but belief is a
grav...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
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“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgo...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The telephone is needed for
Emergency purposes only
These people are not
Emergencies,...
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but I'm too tough for him,
I say, sta...
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the only reason I fucked L. is because you fucked
Z. ...
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the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI A i urreni njerëzit?
Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
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our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
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will never be filled
a space
and even ...
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your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to...
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3-year-olds will...
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Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway tes...
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very far apart
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
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To do...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You women have more holes than swiss cheese.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm becoming softer and softer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI y la fama y el amor
nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI las palabras bonitas
como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
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than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was something about
that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had n...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.
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live.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. Th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There are worse things than being alone,
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enoug...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.
still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI