Art Quotes

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwate

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

Ayn Rand, Anthem

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Martin Luthe

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.

William Hazlitt

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 35 Bible

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.

George Eliot, Romola

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Victor Hugo

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Paula Giddings

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

As an anti - American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.

Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Socrates, Apology, (Plato)

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

William Drayton

Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.

Carl Polloi

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.

Unknown

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

Mary Ellen Kelly

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.

Native American Praye

Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?

Elayne Boosle

You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.

Henri Frdric Amiel