Art Quotes

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Reubin Askew

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Will Rogers

A gentle word is never lost... It cheers the heart when sorrow - Tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.

Hastings

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

J. Krishnamurti

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato, The Republic

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S Truman

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.

Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

Henry Beston

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.

Ernst Jnger, In Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel)

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Isaac Watts

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammad

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer, The Iliad

Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Zelda

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

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

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

Kahlil Gibran

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.

Tench Coxe

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

Dan Rathe

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

Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.

Hellen Kelle

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Franklin P. Adams

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