Art Quotes
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.A. Whitney Brown
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)
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.Tieck
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.Dan Custe
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.Helen Kelle
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.Pietro Aretino
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.George Eliot, Romola
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field.Jim Boulton
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.Seneca
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.Ferdinand Magellan
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!Henry David Thoreau
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.Navajo Chant
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.Isak Dineson
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.Benjamin H. Brewste
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 Bulwer - Lytton
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.George Moore
Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.Ripley D. Saunders
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.Rich Hall, "Sniglets".
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.Bertrand Russell
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.Jim Bishop
When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.Unknown
None of us is as smart as all of us.Phil Condit
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
Love is space and time measured by the heart.Marcel Proust
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.Hannah Whitall Smith
A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.Benjamin H. Brewste
We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.Annie Gottlie
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.James Randi
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.Samuel Butle
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
