Art Quotes

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Mary Bertone

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

James Cash Penney

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.

Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck - If you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.

Jean Ke

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

The good teacher... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.

Stephen Neill

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - A Mount Rushmore of incompetence.

David Steinberg

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

Saint Augustine

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ashley Montagu

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

To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it - - who can say this is not greatness.

William Makepeace Thackeray

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

Terry Josephson

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

Mohammed Ali

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - - Happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Brenda Ueland

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

Woodrow Wilson

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln

High living and high thinking are poles apart.

B. J. Gupta

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

Graffito

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness".

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Felix G. Rohatyn

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde