Art Quotes

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.

Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3. 6. 7]

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch, Morals

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.

Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Saint Benedict

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.

William Shakespeare

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Herbert Clark Hoove

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.

Spider - Man

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.

Katherine Mansfield

The earth has music for those who listen.

William Shakespeare

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

W. T. Ellis

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

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann von Goethe

But did thee feel the earth move?

Ernest Hemingway

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

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Prove

Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Hiram Powers

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

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Franklin P. Jones

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861

If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

James Abram Garfield

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneide

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

Gustave Flaubert

Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Bill Bulko

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Ellen Goodman

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge