Art Quotes
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.Thich Nhat Hanh
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.John Ciardi
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.Orison Swett Marden
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.Ingrid Bergman
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.Charles Dickens
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.Johann Kaspar Lavate
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Repetition is the death of art.Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.Francis Beaumont
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.Jacques Martin Barzun
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.James Randi
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.Francis Quarles
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Kelle
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.George Jean Nathan
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.Thomas Carlyle
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.MG Siriam
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.Chinese Prove
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.Washington Irving
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.American Prove
All paths lead nowhere, follow the path with heart.Carlos Castaneda
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Benjamin Disraeli
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.Barbara Garrison
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.W. H. Auden
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
A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.John Andrew Holmes
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Sir Francis Bacon
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.Plutarch, Morals
