Art Quotes

This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .

Phylos the Tibetan

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step.

Unknown

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.

Charles E. Jefferson

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

Sir Arthur Keith

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Zig Zigla

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Val? ry

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

Chief Seattle

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.

Heinrich Heine

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Daphne Rose Kingma

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Dorothy Sayers

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.

George Carlin

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Mort Sahl

She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.

Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy works. N. B. Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 1219

Ecclesiastes 97

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Joyce

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.

Sir Robert Owen

Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.

Charles McCabe

If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.

George Eliot

Wife: a former sweetheart.

H. L. Mencken

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Celia Thaxte

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

Albert Einstein

Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson