Art Quotes
Charlie Dad, how can you hate The Colonel Stuart Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass.So I Married an Axe Murdere
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.Robert G. Ingersoll
Being a hero is about the shortest - Lived profession on earth.Will Rogers
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.Henry David Thoreau
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.Thomas Paine
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.American Prove
The sinning is the best part of repentance.Arab Prove
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.Archibald Cox
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.Vincent Van Gogh
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.Robert Frost
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3
The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.Edwin Markham
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.Miguel de Cervantes
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.The Land Before Time
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.W. S. Gilbert
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.General Douglas MacArthu
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.Andrew Schneide
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
We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend.Ronnie Hawkins
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Even the best of friends need time apart.Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09 - 09 - 05
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.John W. N. Sullivan
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
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.Alexander Pope
We shall not 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
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.W. H. Auden
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.Laurence J. Pete
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.W. Somerset Maugham
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.Steven Wright
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.Eliza Mother Stewart
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.Constance Naden
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons...Alfred E. Newman
