Art Quotes
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
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
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.John C. Maxwell
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 warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.W. Somerset Maugham
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.David Richerby
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.John Barth
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.G. K. Chesterton
Art is I; science is we.Claude Bernard
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.Fernandez de Andrada
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Buddha
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.Joan Winmill Brown
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.Alan J. Perlis
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.Joseph Bonaparte
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.Navajo Chant
The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.Edwin Markham
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.T. S. Eliot
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.American Prove
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.Jerome K. Jerome
Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?Elayne Boosle
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.Gilda Radne
Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.Martin Luthe
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.Samuel Johnson, (attributed)
At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
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
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.Thomas Carlyle
