Anton Chekhov
“To advise is not to compel.”
Ansel Adams
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
Laurence J. Peter
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard…
John Morton
“There is no limit to the power of loving.”
Lord Byron
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Baltasar Gracian
“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a…
George Edward Moore
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
Albert Camus
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion.…
Benjamin Disraeli
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
E. M. Forster
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men…
Ogden Nash
“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
Henry David Thoreau
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking…
Joan Rivers
“I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.”
Louis Sullivan
“Form follows function.”
Robert Benchley
“Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.”
Joyce Brothers
“Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing… the secret of having it all is loving it…
Walt Whitman
“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
Wilson Mizner
“If you count all your assets you always show a profit.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”
Jack Benny
“I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.”
Sarah Fielding
“The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.”
Francis Bacon
“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
Alexandre Dumas
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”
Federico Fellini
“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
James Russell Lowell
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Laurence Sterne
“Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.”
John Singer Sargent
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”