Art Quotes
It is well - Known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.Benjamin Disraeli
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Kelle
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?Zsa Zsa Gabo
If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.Unknown
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.Latin Prove
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.Oscar Wilde
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare
Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.Sam James Ervin, Jr.
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.Becky Rodenbeck
Kenneth Star... has done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available.Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.Jean Baptiste Colbert
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.William Inge
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.George Eliot
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
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.Franklin P. Jones
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.Celia Thaxte
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.Daniel Defoe
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
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.Atwell
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.George Moore
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.Katherine Mansfield
We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.Jeff Warne
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.Paul Gauguin
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.Bertrand Russell


