Art Quotes
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.Samuel Butle
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.A. W. Toze
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.Agnes Repplie
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.Mark Twain
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.Saint Benedict
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - A Mount Rushmore of incompetence.David Steinberg
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.Miguel de Cervantes
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.Walt Whitman
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.Scott Adams
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
What an artist the world is losing in me.Nero Claudius Caesa
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.Oscar Wilde
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.Archibald Mc Leish
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.George Bernard Shaw
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Gustav Jung
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.Joan Winmill Brown
Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.Black Elk
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Discretion is not the better part of biography.Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.Joseph Conrad
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.W. Somerset Maugham
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.Homer, The Odyssey
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.Virginia Woolf
This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Discretion is the better part of valor.Anonymous
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.David Hume
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?Zsa Zsa Gabo
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.Kahlil Gibran
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.Maurice Druon
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.Shirley Temple
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.Betty Smith
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.Lao Tzu
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.Lavina Christensen Fugal
Knowledge exists to be imparted.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
