Art Quotes

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammad

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I? m good enough, I? m smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Clive Staples Lewis

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol

He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.

Biblical Prove

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.

Lewis Ward

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Walter Lippmann

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.

LaDawnna Burnett (1975 -), Letters on Ethics

Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth.

Archimedes

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Orison Swett Marden

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Frederick Buechne

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Arthur Schopenhaue

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.

George Gordon Byron

This is the last of earth! I am content.

John Quincy Adams, last words, 21 February 1848.

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

My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.

William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons...

Alfred E. Newman

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

Rachel Blanchard

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

It? s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 09 - 05

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament