Art Quotes

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Hilda Thatche
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
A. E. Hotchne
Guatemalan prove - everyone is the age of their heart....
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.
Gerald R. Ford
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
Emmet Fox
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.
Richard Needham
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.
Vivian Baxte
Walter lippmann - men can know more than their ancestors did if...
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefelle
Philip dormer stanhope chesterfield - the heart never grows better by age i fear rather...
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05
All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
John Masefield
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Saadi
A gentle word is never lost... It cheers the heart when sorrow - Tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.
Hastings
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.
Louise Driscoll
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
Barbara M. White
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Mark Twain
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
Christian Nestell
The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
Mahatma Gandhi
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Cicero
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
Martin Luthe
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.
Victor Hugo
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
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Kahlil Gibran
Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.
Bob Hope
We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
George Whitefield
Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II