Art Quotes

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Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
Michel de Montaigne
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
Sir Arthur Keith
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Frank Tibolt
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
William Paley
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.
Lavina Christensen Fugal
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.
Emily Dickinson
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A Bartlett Giamatti
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
Erma Bombeck
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
Johnson
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luthe
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Anonymous
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith
Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.
Martin Luthe
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
John Milton
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
Russian prove
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
Steven King, The Stand
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Rmy de Gourmont
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Give your hearts, but not into each other? s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
Mark Twain
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath