Art Quotes
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
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.Groucho Marx
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.Charles Williams
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?Seneca
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?George Bernard Shaw
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.Thomas Andrew Bailey
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.Unknown
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
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
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.Plato, The Republic
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.Michael J. Gel
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.Rachel Blanchard
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.German prove
Give all to love obey thy heart.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.Miguel de Cervantes
Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.Marcius Porcius Cato
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.Plutarch, Morals
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.Russian prove
I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.Vinet
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.Jacques Martin Barzun
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.Mike Singletary
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.Bible, Proverbs 23: 7
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.Dazed and Confused
I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.Malcolm Boyd
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.Samuel Johnson
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.Michael Bridge
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.Martin Luthe
