Instruct a man, you instruct an individual. Instruct a woman, you instruct a nation.
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I Do, I Will, I Have
How wise I am to have instructed the butler
to instruct the first footman to instruct the second
footman to instruct the doorman to order my carriage;
I am about to volunteer a definition of marriage.
Just as I know that there are two Hagens, Walter and Copen,
I know that marriage is a legal and religious alliance entered
into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a
woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Moreover, just as I am unsure of the difference between
flora and fauna and flotsam and jetsam,
I am quite sure that marriage is the alliance of two people
one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other
never forgetsam,
And he refuses to believe there is a leak in the water pipe or
the gas pipe and she is convinced she is about to asphyxiate
or drown,
And she says Quick get up and get my hairbrushes off the
windowsill, it's raining in, and he replies Oh they're all right,
it's only raining straight down.
That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
the immovable object and the irresistible force.
So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and
combat over everything debatable and combatable,
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
poem by Ogden Nash
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I’ll Instruct My Heart
You’re not stranger to me, a warm hand,
Not only mouth but also tongue to me,
You’re smiling and and funny,
I’ll instruct my heart; as to how it is to bend
With respect always in front of you.
You’re both my light and sun,
In my prayings my desire,
You’re my darling, life, angel,
I’ll instruct my heart; as to how it is to bend
With respect always in front of you.
Poem: Isa KAYACAN
Translated by: Nilufer DURSUN
poem by Nilufer Dursun
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Times
Turbulent times require my inspection,
To instruct and display mankind, every nation.
poem by Naveed Akram
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A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going.
Send a man of sense on the embassy, and you need not instruct him.
If I Must Be A Dog
if i must be a dog;
you must show me
how too beg.
but i can't do that.
if i must be a dog;
i have to sleep there
and not be disturbed,
untill you are as well.
but i can't do that.
if i must be a dog;
and you instruct me to,
i can't do that too moon.
poem by Is It Poetry
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
quote by Jock Sturges
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
quote by Edmund Waller
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The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
quote by George Henry Lewes
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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
quote by Theodore Sturgeon
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An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
quote by John Ashcroft
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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
What It Takes To Achieve Patience
The returning back,
From a dead end that traps...
Will eventually teach patience,
To the one who rushes forward...
With a determination to prove,
Stubbornness prevails.
Fails.
And heartbreaking will be the attempts,
Observed by those who did their best...
To prevent the event.
But one this can not do...
When a child with an adult appearance,
Chooses not to listen?
We can instruct with books.
And believe it takes stern looks.
But experience is the teacher.
Experience does more for opening up the mind...
Than nagging or reminding someone,
Of what they should do for themselves.
And what is more important for them,
They should concentrate to find!
And...
What it takes,
To achieve patience.
We can instruct with books.
And believe it takes stern looks.
But experience is the teacher.
Experience does more for opening up the mind...
Than nagging or reminding someone,
Of what they should do for themselves.
And what is more important for them,
They should concentrate to find!
And...
What it takes,
To achieve patience.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche in The Dawn
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I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
quote by Anne Hutchinson
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