Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.
If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.
Whatever is is a movement; man is a movement-to something other than man.
If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.
The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.
Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
Luminous, unfearful; high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.
The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord.
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.
To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.
Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.
Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.
Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.
I think we're always most interested in the things we're doing right now.
He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"
He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.
And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.
In the evening Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.