Art Quotes
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.Oscar Ameringe
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.Thomas Carlyle
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.Fran Lebowitz
The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.Edward R. Murrow
Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.Miguel de Cervantes
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.Agnes de Mille
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.Edward H. S. Terry
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.Henry Clay
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.Terry Josephson
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.Ingrid Bergman
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.William Shakespeare
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.Izaak Walton
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.Will Rogers
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.Erma Bombeck
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.Sir Walter Raleigh
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.Nietzsche
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
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.Alexander Pope
Originality is the art of concealing your source.Franklin P. Jones
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.Willa Sibert Cathe
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Cicero
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.Robert W. Sarnoff
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Sir Francis Bacon
Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.Marylin Monroe
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887