Art Quotes

Jeannette rankin - you can no more win a war than you can win an...
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
John ciardi - a dollar saved is a quarter earned....
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
William Shakespeare
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel
It sure does, Ben, it definitely does... this is definite... it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes...
Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
Berenson
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
Homer, The Iliad
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
Samuel C. Florman
Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.
Chinese Prove
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhaue
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Colley Cibbe
Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
German prove
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
James Madison, Federalist 10
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
Plato
And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
Dan Rathe
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.
Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello".
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
South
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.
Prophet Mohammad
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.
John Stuart Mill
Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.
Paul Klee
Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.
Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p. 8
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.
Bo Jackson
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.
Henry David Thoreau
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca