Art Quotes
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.Henry Ward Beeche
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.Henry Tuckerman
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.Edmund Burke
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.Horace Bushnell
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Cicero
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
We only part to meet again.John Gay
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.George MacDonald
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.Eric Hoffe
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The out - Of - work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.Bette Davis, "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature".
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.Charles Dickens
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.Serbian Prove
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.Joseph Addison
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.Charles Dickens
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.Saki
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.James Joseph Sylveste
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...Learned Hand
Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.I Ching
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.American Prove
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.Henry David Thoreau
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.Unknown
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.Jean Paul Richte
