Art Quotes
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.David Richerby
Quotations such as have point and lack triteness from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.Louise Guiney
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
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.Robert Frost
As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.Maitri Upanishads
We are immortal until our work on earth is done.George Whitefield
Discretion is not the better part of biography.Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.W. T. Ellis
The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.George Seaton Bowes
Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. All Gaul is divided into three parts.Gaius Julius Caesa
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.Martin Luther King Jr.
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.Prophet Mohammad
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart.Hellen Kelle
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides!Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.Albert Ellis
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.Oswald Spengle
When making personal decisions, listen to what your head says then listen to what your heart says. If they differ, follow your heart Whenever you listen to your heart, you listen to that part of you that is most interested in your well - Being.Unknown
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.John Kenneth Galbraith
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.Thomas Wolfe
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.Janet Long
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.Samuel Butle
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.Jonathan Swift
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.Hal Borland
Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the sounds of the earth are like music.Oscar Hammerstein II
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.George Burns
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.Mark Twain
The great thing is the start - To see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - And him for nothing.Robert Collie
I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.Alice Walke
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.Percival
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
