Art Quotes

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!

David Letterman

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

B. B. Warfield

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I. vii

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

Albert Einstein

Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.

Raynor Schein

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Arnold Bennett

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

Lao Tzu

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butle

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

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

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

Clive Staples Lewis

Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Marianne Williamson

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Unknown

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberge

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex - Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Robert Joseph Bob Dole

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

Listen to your heart, because in the end it is your heart that matters.

Jennifer Tyle

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Elbert Hubbard

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Martin Barzun

Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.

Marcius Porcius Cato

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Jean Cocteau

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.

Alan Stewart Paton

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Hilton Krame

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Author Unknown

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

Anonymous

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Saki

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney