Art Quotes
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.John Masefield
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.Paulson Frenckne
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Perfect love is rare indeed - For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.Leo Buscaglia
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Behan
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.Henry David Thoreau
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step.Unknown
The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left - - The King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.King Farouk of Egypt, 1948
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.Charles Simmons
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
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.Robert A. Heinlein
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.Saki
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.George Gordon Byron
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.Thomas Wolfe
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Adam Smith
The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.Jean - Francois Rameau
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.Chief Joseph
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.Plato, The Republic
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.Margaret Hilda Thatche
Politics is largely a matter of heart.R. A. Butle
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.Daphne Rose Kingma
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
All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.Francis Beaumont
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.Dio Lewis
Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Herbert Aga
The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.Jim Samuels
