Art Quotes
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all.William Hart Coleridge
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.Henry Ward Beeche
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature".
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.Ann Landers
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.John Locke
Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.John Lennon
Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.Chinese Prove
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.Miguel de Cervantes
Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.Alexandre Dumas
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.Charles Horton Cooley
If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.James Abram Garfield
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
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
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.Salvador Dali
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - Ah, that is where the art resides!Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.Hellen Kelle
How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?Jay Leno
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.Ben Harpe
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.Walt Whitman
We only part to meet again.John Gay
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.Don Schula
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.Henry Van Dyke
Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.Otto von Bismarck
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.John Andrew Holme
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.Bill Chickering
