Art Quotes
No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.Sir Robert Owen
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
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
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.Samuel Butle
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
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.Dwight D. Morrow
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - - - Particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.Woody Allen
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 heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.George Seaton Bowes
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.Julius Rosenwald
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.Sir Winston Churchill
A child is the root of the heart.Maria de Jesus
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.Sir Henry Taylo
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.Vicki Baum
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.John A. Locke
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
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate 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?Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.Horace Mann
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.Henry Fielding
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.Aristotle
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.Lord Acton
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.Bible, Proverbs 23: 7
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.Robert A. Heinlein
J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.Spider - Man
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places.Ernest Dimnet
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.Lucretius
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.G. K. Chesterton
History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex - Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.Robert Joseph Bob Dole
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.Laurence J. Pete
