Art Quotes

Cornelius tacitus - keen at the start, but careless at the end....
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Prove
Perfect love is rare indeed - For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Leo Buscaglia
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Anonymous - a conscience is what hurts when all your other...
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
Thomas Carlyle
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Kelle
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.
Joseph Conrad
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Sir Winston Churchill
I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walke
Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.
Hiram Powers
Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
Mickey Friedman
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure - Thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
Patanjali
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.
Henry James
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Mount Hufstedle
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.
Thomas Mann
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.
Robert Collie
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Anonymous
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno
I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.
William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965
I am a part of all that I have met.
John Milton
Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.
Bo Jackson
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.
Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.
Anon.
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butle
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie