Art Quotes
Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.Otto von Bismarck
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - It shall never be again!Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A. B. C. (1917)
Let each man exercise the art he knows.Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B. C.
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.Russian prove
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.George Bernard Shaw
A child is the root of the heart.Maria de Jesus
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.Dorothy Rothschild Parke
Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.Edith Wharton
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.William Bolitho
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, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
As he thinks in his heart, so he is.Jewish Prove
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
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.George Farquha
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.Rene Angelil
Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.Carl Polloi
The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.Antonin Scalia
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.Samuel Adams
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.Albert Einstein
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.Woodrow Wilson
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.G. C. Lichtenberg
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.Epictetus
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.Confucius
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.Chief Seattle
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.Gene Roddenberry
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.Irving Layton
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.Oscar Ameringe
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.George Washington