Art Quotes

A. e. houseman - when i was one - and - twenty, i heard a wise man...
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Abbie Hoffman
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
Aristotle - those who educate children well are more to be...
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B. C.
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
Mary McLeod Bethune
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
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
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson
Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.
Zig Zigla
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep - Burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beeche
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Jonathan Swift
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
A gentle word is never lost... It cheers the heart when sorrow - Tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.
Hastings
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.
Russell M. Nelson
We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliott
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.
Abraham Lincoln
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
G. K. Chesterton
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.
Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.
William Shakespeare
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.
Malcom Mclaren
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. Grant
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth.
Archimedes
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Horace Mann
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Robert Frost
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann von Goethe
Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
Henry Drummond
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley
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
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets