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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!
Theodore Haecker
If we only knew the real value of a day.
Joseph Farrell
The Night has a thousand eyes The Day but one Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.
Francis William Bourdillon
Music touches places beyond our touching.
Keith Bosley
Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?
Gilbert Murray
Love is nature's second son.
George Chapman
Give me your tired your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these the homeless tempest tossed to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus
Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
To hope is to enjoy.
Jacques Delille
I have no history but the length of my bones.
Robin Skelton
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
John Ciardi
Enjoy your happiness while you have it and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.
Joseph Farrell
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.
Jacques Delille
I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.
Helene Iswolsky
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Elizabeth Carter
You men think old men are fools but old men know young men are the fools.
George Chapman
Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
Eric Bentley
A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
Dorothy L. Sayers
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
John Ciardi
I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
Olga Broumas
Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
Lin Yutang
The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
Joseph Farrell
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
John Ciardi
(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment or by hating them as convinced men have hated say Darwin and Freud as agents of some devil.
John Ciardi
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
John Ciardi
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.
Theodore Haecker
Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved most people expand under it into richer and better selves.
Joseph Farrell
America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.
Robert M. Adams
People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake the entirety of thecommon sense of humansand put it in the palm ofyour hand and still haveroom for your dick.
Anne Carson
Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told with understatement that made my eyes and voice fill as I translated; for when people seem to have no emotion remaining for such stories, your own heart must supply it.
Daoud Hari
Some conversations are not about what they're about.
Anne Carson
He doesn't hear but sees the Voice.
Stephen Mitchell
Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them. . . . mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.
Javier Marías
I set free the phantoms of my imagination.
Frigyes Karinthy
Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?
Frigyes Karinthy
Everything returns and renews itself. The difference now is that the rate of these returns has increased, in both space and time, in an unheard-of fashion. Now my thoughts can circle the globe in minutes. Entire passages of world history are played out in a couple of years.
Frigyes Karinthy
Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.
Frigyes Karinthy
There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense.
Fernando Pessoa
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.
Thomas de Quincey
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest.
Gilbert Murray
They do sometimes protest...At these times, she sounds authoritative. But she has no authority.
Lydia Davis
Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.
Patrick O'Brian
Why say then Buddha never carried gun? he didn't play piano, we do not know of him making pictures either.
Suman Pokhrel
Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.
Javier Marías
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