Art Quotes
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.Scott Adams
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.James Arthur Baldwin
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.Al Capone
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - And both commonly succeed, and are right.H. L. Mencken
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...Pablo Picasso
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.Saint Augustine
He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.Biblical Prove
I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.George Washington Carve
Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.Charles Horton Cooley
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.L. M. K. Boelter, 1957
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second - Rate art of imitation.Stephen Neill
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.John Adams
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.Oscar Wilde
Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.George Moore
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.Henri F. Amiel
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.Edward Gibbon
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.Mohammed Ali
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.The Dhammapada
I am a part of all that I have met.John Milton
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
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
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
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3
I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.Marquis de Sade
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects.James Madison
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.Plato
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.H. L. Mencken
It? s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 09 - 05
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.MG Siriam
I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.Richard Wagne
