Art Quotes

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John A. Locke

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Russell L. Ackoff

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

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

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Francis Bacon

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

Kahlil Gibran

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Llama

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw".

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941

My son, give me thine heart...

Proverbs 2326a Bible

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.

Native American Praye

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.

Dan Custe

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

Bertrand Russell

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Dan Quayle, 11/30/88

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Author Unknown

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis Mcginley

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

Jeff Pesis

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle