Art Quotes
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.Mohammed Negui
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.G. K. Chesterton
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.Clive Staples Lewis
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.Samuel Johnson
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.William Shakespeare
Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.John Burroughs
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.J. K. Galbraith
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.Helen Kelle
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215
A light heart lives long.Irish Prove
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.Ann Landers
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
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.E. V. Lucas
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.Henry David Thoreau
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.Michael Landon
Hear the other side. Audi Partem Alteram.Saint Augustine
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.William Shakespeare
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
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
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.Aldous Huxley
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.Mignon McLaughlin
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.Oscar Wilde
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.Hannah Whitall Smith
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Art is the illusion of spontaneity.Japanese Prove
