Xenophon
“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.”
William Whewell
“Every failure is a step to success.”
Winston Churchill
“Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.”
Henry J. Kaiser
“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”
Paul Cezanne
“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
Ben Hecht
“The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow…
Helen Hayes
“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”
Jessamyn West
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
Henny Youngman
“When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my…
Samuel Beckett
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
Douglas Adams
“I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“As for our majority… one is enough.”
Robert Browning
“So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by…
Edward Abbey
“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”
Jonathan Swift
“I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.”
Francois Rabelais
“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”
William Wordsworth
“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
Robert M. Pirsig
“The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you…
Tertullian
“Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.”
Philip James Bailey
“Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.”
Otto Dix
“You know, if one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible.”
Gilda Radner
“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.”
Thomas Hardy
“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.”
William Blake
“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.”
William Inge
“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy…
J. Paul Getty
“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and…
Rita Rudner
“When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was…
Iris Murdoch
“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”
Saadi
“The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”