Art Quotes

Francois de la rochefoucauld - to listen closely and reply well is the highest...
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Rudyard kipling, as easy as a. b. c. (1917) - once there was the people - terror gave it birth;...
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Anon.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Gene Roddenberry
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
H. L. Mencken
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
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them.
Jules Feiffe
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Sir Winston Churchill
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
Jim Davis
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.
George Bernard Shaw
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
African Prove
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.
Albert Einstein
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.
Horace Bushnell
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
The Soviet Union would remain a one - Party nation even if an opposition party were permitted - Because everyone would join that party.
Ronald Reagan
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
Henry Beston
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
The Dhammapada
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri F. Amiel
We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliott
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.
Unknown
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.
George Gordon Byron
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Gerald R. Ford
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.
A. W. Toze
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Arab Prove
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
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
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons