Art Quotes

The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by - Pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Gerald R. Ford

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillo

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Dorothy Sayers

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Berenson

We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.

Annie Gottlie

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Socrates, Apology, (Plato)

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

James Beard

In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.

Martin Terman

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

Apathy isn? t it. We can do something. So flower power didn? t work. So what. We start again.

John Lennon

There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

John Petit - Senn

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Kitaro Nishida

The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.

Tod Johnson

The family - That dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

David Richerby

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

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

It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.

Herbert W. Boyer, co - Founder of Genentech, Inc.

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....

Ian Shoales

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.

Unknown

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

A heart that loves is always young.

Greek Prove

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon