Art Quotes
Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.Dazed and Confused
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.Geri Weitzman
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.H. S. Thompson
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.Leonardo da Vinci
The beginning is the most important part of the work.Plato, The Republic
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.Seneca
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.Ralph Nade
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
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.Sir John Lubbock
Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.Polly Whitney
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.Emily Dickinson
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.LaDawnna Burnett (1975 -), Letters on Ethics
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.Henry Tuckerman
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - The best part under ground.Thomas Overbury
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 it is one of those things that give value to survival.C. S. Lewis
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.Charles H. Mayo
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.Robert Louis Stevenson
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.Serbian Prove
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.William Butler Yeats
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.James L. Hayes, Memos for Management: Leadership, 1983
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.Sue Patton Thoele
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.Frederick William Robertson
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.Leo Rosten
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.James Joseph Sylveste
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.Robert Frost
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.Andrew Schneide
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.I. F. Stone
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.Denis Diderot
