Art Quotes

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

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)

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Frank Tyge

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Colley Cibbe

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Charles Williams

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

We shall never 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

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

Kabbalah

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

Jesus Christ

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Kahlil Gibran

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.

John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1

I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Clay Aiken

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bertrand Russell

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato, The Republic

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Richard Milhous Nixon

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.

Unknown

Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Michel de Montaigne

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

Rudolf Karl Bultmann

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Manly P. Hall

I am a part of all that I have met.

John Milton

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

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

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

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton