Art Quotes

Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine.

Nora Ephron

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?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

Siddha Nagarjuna

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.

Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

It? s a wonder I haven? t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

J Danforth Quayle

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - Particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.

Woody Allen

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Jean Ke

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

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

Vinet

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

Insanity in individuals is something rare - But in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

W. H. Auden

Give your hearts, but not into each other? s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwa

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

David Frost

Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - And part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

D. H. Lawrence

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Antonio Porchia, Voices

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquha

The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.

Loren

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.

Elisha Potte

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson