In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.
Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.
A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.
In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.
Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.
Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.
Who runs the world? Girls.
But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.
Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.