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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty  and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
— Bible
A fence should be horse high  hog tight and bull strong.
— Old saying
A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.
— Hilaire Belloc
Cats  no less liquid than their shadows  Offer no angles to the wind. They slip  diminished  Neat  through loopholes Less than themselves.
— A. S. J. Tessimond
Dogs come when they are called  cats take a message and get back to you.
— Mary Bly
Hi  handsome hunting man Fire your little gun Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again  creep again  leap again Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh  what fun.
— Walter de la Mare
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
— August Strindberg
If called by a panther Don't anther.
— Ogden Nash
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat  it would improve man  but it would deteriorate the cat.
— Mark Twain
To hear the lark begin his flight  And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies  Til the dappled dawn doth rise.
— John Milton
Wee  sleekit  cow'rin  timrous beastie 0 what a panic's in thy breastie! Wi' bickering brattle!
— Robert Burns
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper  or his keeper's brother.
— Evan Esar
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
— T. S. Eliot
No animal admires another animal.
— Blaise Pascal
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you  but he will make a fool of himself too.
— Samuel Butler
All animals are equal  but some animals are more equal than others.
— George Orwell
To his dog  every man is Napoleon  hence the constant popularity of dogs.
— Aldous Huxley
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
— Lewis Thomas
I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.
— Dana Burnet
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions  they pass no criticisms.
— George Eliot
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
— D. H. Lawrence
A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.
— William Blake
I think one reason we admire cats  those of us who do  is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top  no matter what they are doing - or pretend they do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience  and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them.
— Barbara Webster
I think I could turn and live with animals  they are so placid and self-contain'd  I stand and look at them long and long  They do not sweat and whine about their condition  They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins  They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God  Not one is dissatisfied  not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another  nor to his kind that liveth thousands of years ago  Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
— Walt Whitman
The dog is the god of frolic.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Animals are such agreeable friends  they ask no questions  pass no criticisms.
— George Eliot
If't were not for my cat and dog  I think I could not live.
— Ebenezer Elliott
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
— Charles J. Ingersoll
Men show their superiority inside  animals  outside.
— Russian proverb
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
— Thomas Fuller
Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
— Mary Bokin Chesnut
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
— Johann von Goethe
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
— Beilby Porteous
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
— Michel de Montaigne
If you are afraid for your future  you don't have a present.
— James Petersen
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure  and generally create ourselves.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Do not think of all your anxieties  you will only make yourself ill.
— The Shih King
Only man clogs his happiness with care  destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
— John Dryden
I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day  and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright  caring  and anxiety.
— Helen Gurley Brown
Cowards die many times before their deaths  the valiant never taste of death but once.
— William Shakespeare
Every man  through fear  mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
— Brendan Francis
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I am not afraid of tomorrow  for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
— William Allen White
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
— John Lancaster Spalding
We need not be afraid of the future  for the future will be in our own hands.
— Thomas E. Dewey
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
— E. H. Harriman
The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
— Tennessee Williams
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
— Ernest Hemingway
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged  it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
— Arthur Somers Roche
Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.
— Dr. Frank Crane
Fear is created not by the world around us  but in the mind  by what we think is going to happen.
— Elizabeth Gawain
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?
— Elizabeth Bowen
Fear breeds fear.
— Byron Janis
Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.
— Malay proverb
The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
— Margaret Atwood
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living  and your belief will help create the fact.
— William James
We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.
— Etty Hillesum
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.
— Publilius Syrus
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
— Elbert Hubbard
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
— Lucan
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
— Elbert Hubbard
How often the fear of one evil leads into a worse.
— Nicolas Bouleau-Despreaux
Fears are educated into us  and can  if we wish  be educated out.
— Dr. Karl Menninger
Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.
— Ronald Rood
Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance  poise and real courage.
— Elie Metchnikoff
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
— William Faulkner
Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
— Nicholas Berdyaev
I am not afraid of storms  for I am learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
— Katherine Anne Porter
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.
— Nancy Kerrigan
Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.
— Joan C. Harvey
Most people are afraid of failing. I think there's nothing wrong in failing.
— Mark N. Cohen
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
— Paul Sweeney
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
— Barbara Hershey
The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity. ... When we give ourselves permission to fail  we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.
— Eloise Ristad
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
— Publilius Syrus
I was nervous and confident at the same time  nervous about going out there in front of all of those people  with so much at stake  and confident that I was going to go out there and win.
— Althea Gibson
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
— Vauvenargues
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin  but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
— Harper Lee
To be ambitious for wealth  and yet always expecting to be poor  to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for  is like trying to reach east by traveling west. ... No matter how hard you work for success  if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure  it will kill your efforts  neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
— Charles Baudouin
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing  rather than fear of being killed  was the most common cause of battle failure  and that fear of failure ran a strong second.
— S. L. A. Marshall
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.
— Oprah Winfrey
Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
— James Northcote
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
— Billie Jean King
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
— Abraham Maslow
We fear the thing we want the most.
— Dr. Robert Anthony
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
— John F. Kennedy
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
It is not death that a man should fear  he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
Don't be afraid your life will end  be afraid it will never begin.
— Grace Hansen
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
— Henry Van Dyke
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.
— Alice Thomas Ellis
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.
— Teresa of Avila
Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
— Bertrand Russell
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end  but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
People living deeply have no fear of death.
— Anais Nin
Fear of death is worse than dying.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
— William Lyon Phelps
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.
— James F. Byrnes
Death does not frighten me  but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.
— Isabelle Eberhardt
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
— William James
If we let things terrify us  life will not be worth living.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A good life fears not life  nor death.
— Thomas Fuller
He who fears death cannot enjoy life.
— Spanish proverb
To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
— Malcolm Forbes
It is not death we fear  but the thought of it.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded  but the fear of pain or death.
— Epictetus
Death is not the enemy  living in constant fear of it is.
— Norman Cousins
We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.
— Anonymous
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
— Erica Jong
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I may be compelled to face danger  but never fear it  and while our soldiers can stand and fight  I can stand and feed and nurse them.
— Clara Barton
Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.
— Katherine Paterson
I have not ceased being fearful  but I have ceased to let fear control me.
— Erica Jong
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space  yet nothing troubles me less.
— Charles Lamb
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing  and the overtaking and possessing of a wish  discovers the folly of the chase.
— William Congreve
When I lie down  I say  When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
— Bible
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble  I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say  meet it as a friend  for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
— Ann Landers
Trouble is a part of your life  and if you don't share it  you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
— Dinah Shore
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom  sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
— Rollo May
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck  and  ask anyone  the house is never burgled  and the ship never goes down.
— Jean Anouilh
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
— Paul Tillich
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is fear of one's self.
— Wilhelm Stekel
Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.
— Malcolm Lowry
Worries go down better with soup than without.
— Jewish proverb
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am  and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
— Karl Menninger
Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
— Dean William R. Inge
There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four  but he worries about it.
— Anonymous
Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions  and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them  nor all they have suffered to enrich us.
— Marcel Proust
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.
— Thornton Wilder
No sensible person ever made an apology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!
— James Drummond Burns
All that glisters is not gold.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
— Lord Chesterfield
Handsome is that handsome does.
— Henry Fielding
Things are seldom what they seem  Skim milk masquerades as cream.
— W. S. Gilbert
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes  but few have the gift of penetration.
— Machiavelli
Whited sepulchres  which indeed appear beautiful outward  but are within full of dead men's bones.
— Bible
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
— Jonathan Swift
Animals feed  man eats  die man of intellect alone knows how to eat.
— Anthelme Brillat Savarin
All philosophy in two words  - sustain and abstain.
— Epictetus
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies  count our cooks.
— Seneca
When someone does something well  applaud I You will make two people happy.
— Samuel Goldwyn
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
— George Matthew Adams
The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
— Charles Schwab
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
— Samuel Johnson
Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved  most people expand under it into richer and better selves.
— Joseph Farrell
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
— Xenophon
Down deep we really know our worth  but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
— Barbara Sher
Find the good - and praise it.
— Alex Haley
Every day  tell at least one person something you like  admire  or appreciate about them.
— Richard Carlson
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is much less important than life  but what a poor life without it.
— Robert Motherwell
Without art  the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
— George Bernard Shaw
Art is a staple  like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
— Irving Stone
The object of art is to give life a shape.
— Jean Anouilh
The artist has a special task and duty  the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
— Lewis Mumford
Each of us is an artist  capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.
— Dorothy Fadiman
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
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life  and from their hands it comes in fair  articulate forms to bless the world.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
A work of art has an author and yet  when it is perfect  it has something which is anonymous about it.
— Simone Weil
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
— Michelangelo
The artist is the confidant of nature  flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
— Auguste Rodin
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot  but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence  transform a yellow spot into sun.
— Pablo Picasso
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
— Kahlil Gibran
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
— Kimon Nicolaides
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn  I have never really seen  and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing  I realize how extraordinary it is  sheer miracle.
— Frederick Franck
Dancing is the loftiest  the most moving  the most beautiful of the arts  because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life  it is life itself.
— Havelock Ellis
The body says what words cannot.
— Martha Graham
Dancing is the body made poetic.
— Ernst Bacon
The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.
— Sir Robert Helpmann
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If you can walk  you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
— Thomas Carlyle
Music is the child of prayer  the companion of religion.
— Chateaubriand
Music is the art of the prophets  the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul  it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
— Martin Luther
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other  because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
— Plato
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse  our gestures  our digestive tracts  the lunar and seasonal cycles.
— Yehudi Menuhin
When I hear music  I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times  and to the latest.
— Henry David Thoreau
The best  most beautiful  and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
— Jonathan Edwards
When words leave off  music begins.
— Heinrich Heine
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
— Aldous Huxley
There is no feeling  except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.
— George Eliot
Without music  life is a journey through a desert.
— Pat Conroy
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
— Duke Ellington
God respects me when I work  but loves me when I sing.
— Rabindranath Tagore
We all have music inside us  and can learn how to get it out  one way or another.
— Frank Wilson
Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes  and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe  and restores to us forgotten paradises.
— Edith Sitwell
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
— Jean Paul
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better  by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth  which God has set in all men's souls.
— James Russell Lowell
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end  the poem is not a thing we see - it is  rather  a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.
— Robert Penn Warren
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
— Edward Hubbell Chapin
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
— Socrates
Poetry is simply the most beautiful  impressive  and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
When power narrows the area of man's concern  poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
— John F. Kennedy
When you read and understand a poem  comprehending its rich and formal meanings  then you master chaos a little.
— Stephen Spender
There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
— Booker T. Washington
The echo of a platitude.
— Ambrose Bierce
Applause is the spur of noble minds  the end and aim of weak ones.
— Walter Colton
About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.
— G. D. Prentice
Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.
— Vincent Scully
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical  straight  unbending  only at right angles - and functional?
— Charles, Prince of Wales
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
— Charles, Prince of Wales
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
— Robert A. M. Stern
In architecture the pride of man  his triumph over gravitation  his will to power  assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The materials of city planning are sky  space  trees  steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.
— Le Corbusier
Buildings should be good neighbours.
— Paul Thiry
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is rich  always changing  always challenging  and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood  concrete  glass and steel  of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
— Arthur Erickson
A building is a string of events belonging together.
— Chris Fawcett
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
— Tao Ho
Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people  and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.
— Kisho Kurokawa
I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.
— Claes Oldenberg
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.
— Alan Kay
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
— Mies van der Rohe
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains  ask yourself the question: Not what style  but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity  vulgarity  anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
— Louis H. Sullivan
Light  God's eldest daughter  is a principal beauty in a building.
— Thomas Fuller
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
— John Ruskin
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
— Constantin Brancusi
The flowering of geometry.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
— Walter Gropius
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
— Mies van der Rohe
An arch never sleeps.
— Hindu proverb
Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
— Ralph Rapson
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls  but in the space within to be lived in.
— Lao-Tzu
Good architecture lets nature in.
— Mario Pei
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
— Leonard Baskin
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
No house should ever be on a hill  or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together  each the happier for the other.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
— Walter Gropius
The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.
— Harwell Hamilton Harris
Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.
— Etienne Gaboury
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly  but take every building to pieces  and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms  getting back to first principles.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room  a room in a house  a house in an environment  an environment in a city plan.
— Eero Saarinen
In speculative buildings  which is most of our business  there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence  the top and the elevator cab.
— Chao-Ming Wu
A house is a machine for living.
— Buckminster Fuller
A doctor can bury his mistakes  but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The White House was designed by Hoban  a noted Irish-American architect  and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait  but I appreciate his efforts.
— John F. Kennedy
Genius is personal  decided by fate  but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
— Le Corbusier
We shape our buildings  thereafter they shape us.
— Winston Churchill
I call architecture 'petrified music'.
— Goethe
Form ever follows function.
— Louis H. Sullivan
Old houses mended  Cost little less than new before they're ended.
— Anonymous
Architecture is frozen music.
— Goethe
Ah  to build  to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
— Joseph Addison
Many can argue  not many converse.
— Louisa May Alcott
Wise men argue causes  and fools decide them.
— Anacharsis
When Bishop Berkeley said  "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.
— Lord Byron
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
— Rufus Choate
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments  but not with comprehension.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
— Victor Hugo
Insolence is not logic  epithets are the arguments of malice.
— Charles J. Ingersoll
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint  and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.
— Omar Khayyam
Never argue at the dinner table  for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
— Richard Whately
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
— Oscar Wilde
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
— George Bernard Shaw
In a true tragedy  both parties must be right.
— Georg W. F. Hegel
Some guy hit my fender the other day  and I said unto him  "Be fruitful  and multiply." But not in those words.
— Woody Allen
We're eyeball to eyeball  and the other fellow just blinked.
— Dean Rusk
Weakness on both sides is  as we know  the motto of all quarrels.
— Voltaire
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
— James Russell Lowell
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty  and besides  the pig likes it.
— Cyrus Ching
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
— George Bernard Shaw
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
— Dudley Field Malone
Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
— Irish proverb
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
— La Rochefoucauld
When we quarrel  how we wish we had been blameless.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
— Bertrand Russell
Every story has three sides to it - yours  mine and the facts.
— Foster Meharny Russell
(Ars longa  vita brevis.) Art is long  life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
— Lawren Harris
A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation  it should be a presentation.
— Jacques Reverdy
An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
— Ben Shahn
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.
— Jacques Barzun
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
— G. K. Chesterton
Artists are the antennae of the race  but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
— Ezra Pound
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees  they must put their lives into the sting they give.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Artists  by definition innocent  don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
— Ned Rorem
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.
— Vincent van Gogh
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out  while Romantic grows from outside in.
— Ned Rorem
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere  the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
— Paul Cezanne
Fine art is that in which the hand  the head  and the heart of man go together.
— John Ruskin
Good artists exist simply in what they make  and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
— Oscar Wilde
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour  but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel  appreciate  and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
— Bernard Berenson
I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.
— Auguste Renoir
If artists and poets are unhappy  it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
— George Santayana
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
— Susan Sontag
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
— Vincent van Gogh
Painting is a faith  and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
— Vincent van Gogh
Painting is silent poetry  and poetry is painting with the gift of speech
— Simonides
Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these  3 000 are in existence.
— Wilhelm Bode
Still  there is a calm  pure harmony  and music inside of me.
— Vincent van Gogh
Style  like the human body  is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
— Tacitus
The fingers must be educated  the thumb is born knowing.
— Marc Chagall
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary  yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
— Eric Hoffer
The scholar seeks  the artist finds.
— Andre Gide
The song of the brush.
— Chinese saying
Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
— John Cage
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
— Pablo Picasso
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
— Paul Cezanne
We must grant the artist his subject  his idea  his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.
— Henry James
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said  "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."
— Michelangelo
Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Art is I  science is we.
— Claude Bernard
The artist  like the God of the creation  remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork  invisible  refined  out of existence  indifferent  paring his fingernails.
— James Joyce
Designers and free lance artists and editors can set their hourly rates by dividing their annual income needs by 1000.
— Mike Rider
Children  like animals  use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.
— Eudora Welty
When power leads man toward arrogance  poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern  poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts  poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist. . . faithful to his personal vision of reality  becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.
— John F. Kennedy
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
— Wyndham Lewis
Conception  my boy  fundamental brainwork  is what makes the difference in all art.
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
— George Santayana
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
— Clement Greenberg
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 a human activity  consisting in this  that one man consciously  by means of external signs  hands on to others feelings he has worked through  and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.
— Leo Tolstoy
A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.
— Mark Rothko
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious  individualistic  unconventional  sensitive  irritable.
— Robert Motherwell
Culture is something you cannot buy  something you cannot import  something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer  an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' Culture is something that evolves out of the simple  enduring elements of everyday life  elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.
— Thor Hansen
Art is not an end in itself  but a means of addressing humanity.
— Modest Mussorgsky
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
— Andri Malraux
Art is a delayed echo.
— George Santayana
Art is a kind of illness.
— Giacomo Puccini
One must work  nothing but work  and one must have patience.
— Auguste Rodin
Art does not reproduce the visible  rather it makes it visible.
— Paul Klee
The more horrifying this world becomes  the more art becomes abstract.
— Paul Klee
One of the recognizable features of the authentic masterpiece is its capacity to renew itself  to endure the loss of some kinds of immediate relevance while still answering the most important questions men can ask  including new ones they are just learning how to frame.
— Arnold Stein
Art is man's nature  nature is God's art.
— P. J. Bailey
With the pride of the artist  you must blow against the walls of every power that exists  the small trumpet of your defiance.
— Norman Mailer
All art is a kind of confession  more or less oblique. All artists  if they are to survive  are forced  at last  to tell the whole story  to vomit the anguish up.
— James Baldwin
History repeats itself  but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
— Joseph Conrad
If you ask me what I came to do in this world  I  an artist  I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'
— Emile Zola
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing  but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind  if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story  but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.
— Maurice Sendak
In any evolutionary process  even in the arts  the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
— Kenneth Boulding
The cheap  no matter how charming  how immediate  does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.
— William Littler
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
— Entile Zola
Art gropes  it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods  listening to itself and to everything around it  unsure of itself  waiting to pounce.
— John W. Gardner
Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.
— Elizabeth Kilbourn
What's an artist  but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?
— William Gaddis
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility  the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted  everything in fact which masks reality from us  in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
— Henri Bergson
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which  throughout his lifetime  he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.
— Albert Camus
As an artist grows older  he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.
— Charles Burchfield
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
— H. L. Mencken
It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
— George Woodcock
An artist never really finishes his work  he merely abandons it.
— Paul Valery
I am convinced it is a mistake to find an artist human outside his work. If you cannot find him human in and through his work  you are better not to know it when you come to formulate an opinion of his public value.
— Kenneth Winters
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
— Marshall McLuhan
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
— Michelangelo
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.
— Eduard Weston
Living is a form of not being sure  not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how  you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong  but we take leap after leap in the dark.
— Agnes de Mille
The artist  like the idiot  or clown  sits on the edge of the world  and a push may send him over it.
— Osbert Sitwell
Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art  if it be art  will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day  and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
— D. H. Lawrence
Art isn't something you marry  it's something you rape.
— Edgar Degas
It's not what you see that is art  art is the gap.
— Marcel Duchamp
I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
— John Murray Gibbon
An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.
— Hugh MacLennan
Art upsets  science reassures.
— Georges Braque
An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.
— Lee Simonson
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
— Paul Gauguin
The father of every good work is discontent  and its mother is diligence.
— Lajos Kassak
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
— Henri Matisse
The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.
— Martin Greenburg
Drawing is speaking to the eye  talking is painting to the ear.
— Joseph Joubert
We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois  so that you may be violent and original in your work.
— Gustave Flaubert
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
— Joan Miro
Caricature is rough truth.
— George Meredith
A work of art is an exaggeration.
— Andre Gide
Art not only imitates nature  but also completes its deficiencies.
— Aristotle
When one admires an artist it is important not to know him personally.
— Jacinto Benaventey Martinez
Art for art's sake.
— Victor Cousin
Art  as far as it is able  follows nature  as a pupil imitates his master  thus your art must be  as it were  God's grandchild.
— Dante Alighieri
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
— George Jean Nathan
A picture is a poem without words.
— Horace
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
— Ben Jonson
It's clever  but is it art?
— Rudyard Kipling
Art is not an end in itself  but a means of addressing humanity.
— M. P. Moussorgsky
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
— Jean Paul Richter
Art is difficult  transient is her reward.
— Friedrich von Schiller
The artist does not see things as they are  but as he is.
— Alfred Tonnelle
When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.
— German proverb
If you always live with those who are lame  you will yourself learn to limp.
— Latin proverb
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
— Bible
I am an atheist  thank God!
— Anonymous
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
— Clarence Darrow
The fool hath said in his heart  There is no God.
— Bible
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms  I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
— Jonathan Swift
By night an atheist half believes in God.
— Edward Young
Audacity  more audacity  always audacity.
— Georges Jacques Danton
Fortune favors the audacious.
— Erasmus
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.
— Anonymous
All authority belongs to the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
The highest duty is to respect authority.
— Pope Leo
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble  he who writes verses builds it in granite.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
— Miguel de Cervantes
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
— Benjamin Disraeli
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many  and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
— Juvenal
You do not publish your own verses  Laelius  you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine  or else publish your own.
— Martial
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
— Mohammed
The melancholy days have come  the saddest of the year  Of wailing winds  and naked woods  and meadows brown and sear.
— William Cullen Bryant
The year's in the wane  There is nothing adoring  The night has no eve  And the day has no morning  Cold winter gives warning!
— Thomas Hood
O  it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock  When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
— James Whitcomb Riley
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains  and studying night and day how to fly?
— William Law
The birds can fly  An' why can't I?
— John Trowbridge
He rode upon a cherub  and did fly: yea  he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
— Bible
Here we have baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
— Eugene Field
Where did you come from  baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.
— George Macdonald
Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top  When the wind blows the cradle will rock  When the bough bends the cradle will fall  Down comes the baby  cradle and all.
— Old Nursery Rhyme
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.
— Bible
Hush  my dear  lie still and slumber  Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.
— Isaac Watts
Sweetest li'l feller  everybody knows  Dunno what to call him  but he's mighty lak' a rose  Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.
— Frank L. Stanton
A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.
— Anonymous
A bachelor is a souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute.
— Anonymous
The best work  and of greatest merit for the public  has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
— Sir Francis Bacon
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
— Benjamin Franklin
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
— Oscar Wilde
A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair  and takes it away from you when it rains.
— Anonymous
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
— Thomas Jefferson