Art Quotes
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire
Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...David Gridley, Indiantown
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.Henry David Thoreau
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.Marlene Dietrich
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.James Randi
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.Richard Adams
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.Unknown
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.Johann von Goethe
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all.William Hart Coleridge
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.Saint Augustine, Confessions
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.Amy Lowell
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.Oscar Wilde
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
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.Dan Custe
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Jim
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.Percy Wynham Lewis
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.Paul Sweeney
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.Rita Rudne
Discretion is not the better part of biography.Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.Maria Montessori
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.General Douglas MacArthu
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.Unknown
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.Captain J. A. Hadfield
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.Bill Cosby
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Andre Gide
May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.Blessing Irish
The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.Jean Anouilh
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.Dorothy Nevill
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.Antonio Porchia, Voices
