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Dorothy Parker

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Four be the things I’d been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

Next 10 Poems

• Dorothy Parker : Iseult Of Brittany
• Dorothy Parker : Landscape
• Dorothy Parker : Liebestod
• Dorothy Parker : Light Of Love
• Dorothy Parker : Lines On Reading Too Many Poets
• Dorothy Parker : Little Words
• Dorothy Parker : Love Song
• Dorothy Parker : Lullaby
• Dorothy Parker : Men
• Dorothy Parker : Midnight

Previous 10 Poems

• Dorothy Parker : Interview
• Dorothy Parker : Interior
• Dorothy Parker : Inscription For The Ceiling Of A Bedroom
• Dorothy Parker : Indian Summer
• Dorothy Parker : Incurable
• Dorothy Parker : I Shall Come Back
• Dorothy Parker : I Know I Have Been Happiest
• Dorothy Parker : Hearthside
• Dorothy Parker : Healed
• Dorothy Parker : Harriet Beecher Stowe