Art Quotes

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - Particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.

Woody Allen

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

Quotations such as have point and lack triteness from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

Louise Guiney

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Julius Henry Marx

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Thomas Tusse

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

James Thurbe

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Kelle

If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.

Unknown

We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend.

Ronnie Hawkins

I am a part of all I have read.

John Kieran

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Gail Pool

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

Robert S. McNamara, former U. S. Secretary of Defense

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

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

H. S. Thompson

When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

Daniel Defoe

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.

Al Capone

Great artists have no country.

Alfred du Masset

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer, The Odyssey

Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.

Ronald Reagan

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

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

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

La Rochefoucauld

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

John Milton

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Anonymous

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato, The Republic

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau