Art Quotes
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.Kahlil Gibran
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.Cicero
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.Aldous Huxley
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.Leo Tolstoy
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.Lydia M. Child
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.Marshall McLuhan
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.W. H. Auden
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.H. W. Dodds
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.Ricard
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.Lyndon B. Johnson
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.John Barth
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.J. R. R. Tolkien
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.Ellen Gilcrist
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
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
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.Henri Frdric Amiel
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.Roosevelt, Eleano
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.Jonathan Swift
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.Saint Jerome
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.Sextus Propertius, Elegies
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.Jean Baptiste Colbert
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.Steven Runciman
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.Unknown
What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.Jim Beggs
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.Henry David Thoreau
Earth is 98 full. Please delete anyone you can.Anon.
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
