Art Quotes
Never let the odds keep you from pursuing What you know in your heart you were meant to do.Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.Jean Ke
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.John A. Locke
No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.Henry Kissinge
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
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
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
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.Plato, The Republic
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.Wendell Berry
I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.Clay Aiken
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.James Beard
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well - Defined meaning.H. A. Kramers
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.Henry David Thoreau
Wife: a former sweetheart.H. L. Mencken
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.Aeschylus
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.Marya Mannes
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
Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth.The Clown Prince of Darkness, corresponsdence
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.Mark Twain
The revolution is not a tea party.Mao Tse - Tung
The worst prison would be a closed heart.Unknown
A heart that loves is always young.Greek Prove
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
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
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.Nelson Rockefelle
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
Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.Anon.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet Mondrian
