Art Quotes

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

J. K. Galbraith

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliott

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.

Tench Coxe

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

Frances Burnett

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

The earth has music for those who listen.

William Shakespeare

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.

John Gillespie Magee

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!

Sonjay Anand

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The wicked at heart probably know something.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Lord Byron

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bolitho

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Frederick Buechne

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Benjamin Disraeli

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

Alexander Hamilton started the U. S. Treasury with nothing - - And that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Will Rogers

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luthe

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

Akhenaton

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwate

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

Alan Ashley - Pitt

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

Johann von Goethe

When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.

Richard Olton

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin