Art Quotes

We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend.

Ronnie Hawkins

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates

The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

H. W. Dodds

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Isaac Watts

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.

Unknown

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

Donald O. Rickte

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Charles Williams

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Virgil

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

Anthony Robbins

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

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

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

Dax Ward

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Julius Henry Marx

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

Henry Tuckerman

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.

Charlotte Bronte

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Unknown

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.

Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left - - The King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.

King Farouk of Egypt, 1948

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.

Jean Anouilh

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Tennessee Williams

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Albert Smith