Art Quotes
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.Oscar Wilde
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure - Thing boat never gets far from shore.Dale Carnegie
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.William Shakespeare
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.John Petit - Senn
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.Charles Dickens
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.Agnes de Mille
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.George Gordon Byron
Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.LaDawnna Burnett, (1975 -), Letters on Ethics
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.Josh Billings
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?Edwin Markham
Quotations such as have point and lack triteness from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.Louise Guiney
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
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.Jim Davis
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.Hendrik Willem Van Loon
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.Samuel Butle
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.Joyce
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.Sextus Propertius, Elegies
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.Moliere
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.Thomas Mann
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.William Makepeace Thackeray
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.Virgil
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.Henry Watton
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
Never let the odds keep you from pursuing What you know in your heart you were meant to do.Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
