Art Quotes

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

Art is science made clear.

Jean Cocteau

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

Yoshida Kenko

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well - Defined meaning.

H. A. Kramers

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Rothschild Parke

All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Tshunka Witko

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

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Sir Winston Churchill

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start.

Jody Weintrau

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Bernard Berenson

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Will Rogers

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Shopenhaue

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Henry Fielding

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

George Seaton Bowes

I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.

Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale