Aesop
“Plodding wins the race.”
Voltaire
“To hold a pen is to be at war.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.”
Thomas Fuller
“In fair weather prepare for foul.”
Balthus
“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the…
Anton Chekhov
“There is nothing new in art except talent.”
Tadao Ando
“There is a role and function for beauty in our time.”
William Hazlitt
“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
George Burns
“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
Jean Cocteau
“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?”
Yogi Berra
“We have deep depth.”
Rita Rudner
“I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.”
Stendhal
“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.”
Torquato Tasso
“Any time not spent on love is wasted.”
Alphonse de Lamartine
“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the…
Luther Burbank
“We must return to nature and nature’s god.”
Virgil
“As the twig is bent the tree inclines.”
Samuel Butler
“Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.”
Max Muller
“I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first…
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Philip Guston
“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”
P. J. O’Rourke
“If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.”
Paulo Coelho
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
William Butler Yeats
“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had…
Theodore Bikel
“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.”
Brendan Behan
“If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.”
Pope John Paul II
“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”