Art Quotes
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.William Shakespeare
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.General Douglas MacArthu
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
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.Plato
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.John Morley
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.John Ruskin
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.Jason Berg
The heart is wiser than the intellect.Unknown
I think, therefore Descartes exists.Saul Steinberg
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
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.Miguel de Cervantes
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Knowledge exists to be imparted.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Wheele
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.Homer, The Odyssey
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.Sir Thomas More
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.Samuel C. Florman
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.Alan Marshall Beck
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.Richard Milhous Nixon
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.John Adams
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
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?George Carlin
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.B. B. Warfield
There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.Venezuelan Prove
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.Oscar Wilde
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 4 scene 1
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.Robert Englund
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.Charles Dickens
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.La Rochefoucauld
There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.Lao Tzu
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.Raynor Schein
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
