Art Quotes

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

J. Krishnamurti

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Henry David Thoreau

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

George Whitefield

What an artist the world is losing in me.

Nero Claudius Caesa

The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.

Native American

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquha

Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.

Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3. 6. 7]

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A Bartlett Giamatti

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Arthur Schopenhaue

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Prove

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

Jay Leno

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Ernest Dimnet

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

Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.

Virgil

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Russian prove

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.

Andrew Schneide

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Abraham Lincoln

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch, Morals

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Oscar Hammerstein II

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

Oren Arnold