Quotes by Writers - Page 29

Here we have baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
Eugene Field
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Jean Paul Richter
It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
George Woodcock
Pioneers did not produce original works of art because they were creating original human environments they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them.
George Woodcock
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
Wyndham Lewis
Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
La Rochefoucauld
Weakness on both sides is as we know the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire
I call architecture 'petrified music'.
Goethe
Architecture is frozen music.
Goethe
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
Jean Paul
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
John Ruskin
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.
Goethe
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Samuel Johnson
Death does not frighten me but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.
Isabelle Eberhardt
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
Publilius Syrus
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
Vauvenargues
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert Hubbard
What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.
Publilius Syrus
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
Beilby Porteous
To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.
Hilaire Belloc
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The swaggering underemphasis of New England.
Heywood Broun
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
Thomas Gold Appleton
The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
Hermann Keyserling
That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon
If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
o.henry
If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.
Syrus
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.
George Burns
An old codger rampant and still learning.
Aldous Huxley
So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.
Goethe
Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.
Daniel Defoe
Few people know how to be old.
La Rochefoucauld
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
La Rochefoucauld
We give advice but we do not inspire conduct.
La Rochefoucauld
Many receive advice only the wise profit by it.
Syrus
Admonish your friends privately but praise them openly.
Syrus
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel for it does not easily deface their own character nor render their purposes indistinct.
Arthur Helps
It is well enough when one is talking to a friend to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.
Mary Lamb
I give myself sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Wortley Montagu
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
Aldous Huxley
But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.
Goethe
Advertising is legalized lying.
H.G.Wells
Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
Baltasar Gracián
I have always grown from my problems and challenges from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.
Samuel Johnson
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
Samuel Johnson
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson