Art Quotes

There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.^    Thomas Jefferson

Now good digestion wait on appetite,  And health on both!^    William Shakespeare

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior.  Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.^    Unknown

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.^    Joe Paterno

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in  being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.^    George Soros

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.^    Austin OMalley

A hungry man is not a free man.^    Adlai E. Stevenson

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will  always be helpful. He isn't  likely to grow dim or doubtful.  Chances are, he isn't likely to carry  the cat that way again, either.  But if he wants to, I say let him!^    Mark Twain

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.^    Albert Camus

The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.^    Source Unknown

Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.^    Anonymous Anonymous

Originality is nothing by judicious  imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.^    Voltaire

For 'tis impossible  Hate to return with love.    [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]^    Vittorio Alfieri

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.^    Jorge Luis Borges

Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.^    Didacus Stella

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in  March, that month of wind and taxes, the  wind will presently disappear,  the taxes last us all the year.^    Ogden Nash

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.^    Edmund Burke

Thank God, I have done my duty.^    Lord Horatio Nelson

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.^    Friedrich von Schiller

Here's a sigh to those who love me,  And a smile to those who hate;    And whatever sky's above me,      Here's a heart for every fate.^    Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

Oh goodie, goth mimes.  The best of both worlds. They  pretend they're trapped in a box  and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.^    Source Unknown

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.^    Dr. Carl Sagan

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit^    Edward Abbey

More than we use is more than we want.^    Gaelic Proverb

How sweet the answer Echo makes  To music at night,    When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,      And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,        Goes answering light.^    Thomas Moore

I heard a bird so sing,  Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.^    William Shakespeare

We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.^    Theodore Parker

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.^    Sven Goran Eriksson

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.^    Horace

A fool sees not the same tree  that a wise man sees.^    William Blake

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.^    Grantland Rice

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few^    Shunryu Suzuki

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.^    Gerald Stanley Lee

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.  The more things you do, the more you can do.^    Lucille Ball

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the  secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.^    Charles Schwab

It is better to know some of the  questions than all of the answers.^    James Thurber

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.^    Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.^    Oscar Wilde

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes.  All his government is groping.^    Ben Jonson

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.^    Johann Kaspar Lavater

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.^    Daniel Readon

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.^    Benjamin Franklin

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