Art Quotes

Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying.

Anon.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Harold Geneen

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Jesse Louis Jackson

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.

L. M. K. Boelter, 1957

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A heart that loves is always young.

Greek Prove

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

Archibald Mc Leish

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Gail Pool

We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

Jeff Warne

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

George F. Will

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.

Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Ronald Reagan

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Partying is such sweet sorrow.

Robert Byrne

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.

Unknown

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Julius Henry Marx

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

Donald O. Rickte

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

William Shakespeare

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left - - The King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.

King Farouk of Egypt, 1948

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Martin Luthe

Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee

Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.

Bob Hope

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

Marcus Garvey

Art is science made clear.

Jean Cocteau

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon