Art Quotes

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

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

Mort Sahl

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

Jim Bishop

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Erich Fromm

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Carl Jung

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo.

William Shakespeare

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthu

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.

Soren Kierkegaard

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.

Shriekback, "Cradle Song".

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

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. McKain

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

Sue Patton Thoele

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Stephen Hawking

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Sir John Lubbock

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Washington Irving

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

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton