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In addition to collecting jokes, I also collect
quotes.
These pages represents about 7 years worth. There are over 4,400
quotes in the collection, some meaningful, most thought provoking, some
just plain humorous. I have loosely (and I do mean loosely)
categorized
them as I collected them. The categories are listed below, along
with the date it was last updated.
Those most recently updated
are in red.
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| Proverbs | June 16,2005 |
| Speaking | July 10, 2001 |
| Business | March 10, 2005 |
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| Politics | June 16,2005 |
| Taxes | June 16,2005 |
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| Religion & Blessings | June 16,2005 |
| Nature | August 30, 2002 |
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| Art & Literature | March 10, 2005 |
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May you always have...
A sunbeam to
warm you,
Good luck to
charm you,
And a
sheltering angel
so nothing can
harm you.
Laughter to
cheer you,
Faithful
friends near you,
And whenever
you pray...
Heaven to hear
you
-- An
Irish Blessing
May God grant
you many years to live,
For sure He
must be knowing
The earth has
angels all too few
And heaven is
overflowing.
-- Irish
Blessing
The Vatican is
against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have
that rule when
Jesus was born.
-- Elayne
Boosler
Deep peace of
the running wave to you.
Deep peace of
the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of
the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of
the shinning stars to you.
Deep peace of
the watching shepards to you.
Deep peace of
the Son of Peace to you.
-- A
Gaelic rune (blessing)
God help the
man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman,
and God help
him still more if he finds her.
--
Benjamin Tillett
Pray for a
faith that will not shrink when it is washed in the waters of
affliction.
-- Ernest
Wadsworth
May your life
be as beautiful as a summer day with just enough clouds to make
you appreciate
the sunshine.
-- Author
Unknown
TV evangelists
say they don't favor any particular denomination, but I
think we've all
seen their eyes light up at tens and twenties.
-- Dennis
Miller
May there
always be work for your hands to do
May your purse
always hold a coin or two
May the sun
always shine on your windowpane
May a rainbow
be certain to follow each rain
May the hand of
a friend always be near you
May God fill
your heart with gladness to cheer you
-- Irish
Friendship Wish
May you have
the hindsight to know where you've been,
The foresight
to know where you are going,
And the insight
to know when you have gone too far.
-- Irish
Blessing
TV evangelists
say they don't favor any particular
denomination,
but I think we've all seen their eyes
light up at
tens and twenties.
-- Dennis Miller
If the Creator
had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely
meant us to
stick it out.
-- Arthur
Koestler
Moses came down
with the Ten Amendments, which were God's Bill of Wrongs.
-- Susie
F., age 7
The next 2
courtesy of Marsha in Texas
God created
sex. Priests created marriage.
--
Voltaire
God is a comic
playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.
--
Voltaire
In the
beginning the world was without form, and void. And God said 'Let
there be
light'. And God separated the light from the dark. And did two
loads of
laundry.
-- Kevin
Krisciunas
When I lay down
and try to sleep,
odd beasts, in
darkness, 'round me creep.
If something
bites and I awake
Dear Lord,
don't let it be a snake.
-- AHIO
May the Light
always find you on a dreary day,
When you need
to be home, may you find a way,
May you always
have courage to take a chance,
And never find
frogs in your underpants.
May the wind at your back not be the
result
of the corned beef and cabbage
you had for lunch.
-- Irish Blessing/Proverb
A baby is God's opinion that the world
should
go on.
-- Carl Sandburg
A coincidence is God's way of remaining
anonymous.
-- Author Unknown
I do not feel obliged to believe that the
same
God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended
us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei
If only God would give me some clear sign!
Like making a large
deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
-- Woody Allen
The important thing is neither your
nationality
nor the religion
you professed, but how your faith translated
itself in your life.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Reflect upon your present blessings, of
which
every man has many;
not on your past misfortunes, of which all
men have some.
-- Charles Dickens
The worst moment for the atheist is when he
is really thankful,
and has nobody to thank.
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Do you know what would have happened if it
had been Three Wise Women
instead of three Wise Men? They would have
asked directions, arrived on
time, helped deliver the baby, cleaned the
stable, made a casserole, and
brought practical gifts.
-- Author Unknown
I have wondered at times what the Ten
Commandments
would have
looked like if Moses had run them through
the US congress.
-- Ronald Reagan
The Bible contains 6 admonishments to
homosexuals
and 362
admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't
mean that God
doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that
they need more
supervision.
-- Lynn Lavner
When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!
-- Brian O'Rourke
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants
us
to be happy.
-- Benjamin Franklin
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in
blessings,
slow to make enemies,
and quick to make friends. But rich
or poor,quick or slow, may you
know nothing but happiness from this day
forward.
May the face of every good news and the back of every bad news be toward us.
May the road rise to meet you may the wind
be always at your back; may
the sun shine warm upon your face, and the
rain fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again, may God hold you
in the hollow of his hand.
May the roof above us never fall in, and
may
we friends gathered below never
fall out.
May the strength of three be in your journey.
May peace and plenty be the first to lift
the
latch on your door and
happiness be guided to your home by the candle
of Christmas.
In the New Year may your right hand always be strong.
St. Patrick was a gentleman who, through
strategy
and stealth, drove
all the snakes from Ireland. Here's a toasting
to his health. But not too
many toastings lest you loose yourself and
then forget the good St.
Patrick and see all those snakes again.
The health of the salmon and of the trout
that
swim back and forward
near the bulls mouth; Don't ask for saucepan,
jug or mug; Down the
hatch drink it up.
Here's to you and yours and to mine and
ours
and if mine and ours ever
come across you and yours I hope you and yours
will do as much for
mine and ours as mine and ours have done for
you and yours.
May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and the road downhill all the way to your
door.
May there be a generation of children on the children of your children.
Here's a health to your enemies enemies.
Here's health and prosperity to you and all
your posterity and them that
doesn't drink with sincerity that they may
be damned for all eternity.
May I see you gray and combing your children's hair.
Health and long life to you, the woman of
your
choice to you, a child
every year to you, land without rent to you
and may you die in Ireland.
The health of the salmon to you a long life, a full heart and a wet mouth.
May the grass grow long on the road to hell for want of use.
May the Lord keep you in His hand
And never close His fist too tight.
May your neighbors respect you,
Trouble neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And heaven accept you.
Old Irish Blessing
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May those that love us, love us.
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping.
Religion... is the opium of the masses.
-- Karl Marx
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors,
and
also to love our enemies;
probably because generally they are the same
people.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody
wants to die.
-- Joe Louis
I am responsible only to God and history.
-- Francisco Franco
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for
those who in time of
great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
-- Dante
Before God we are equally wise - and
equally
foolish.
-- Albert Einstein
I like the silent church before the service
begins, better than any
preaching.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the solution is simple, God is
answering.
-- Albert Einstein
A baby is God's opinion that life should go
on.
-- Carl Sandberg
I would like to reaffirm my belief in
Buddha,
but on the other hand
there is a great deal to be said for margarine.
-- Hop Lee May
The Bible contains six admonishments to
homosexuals
and three
hundred, sixty-two admonishments to
heterosexuals.
That doesn't
mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals.
It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynne Lavner
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake
of
dreaming that I am
persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may be that our role on this planet is
not
to worship God, but
to create him.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
When I was a young boy, my father taught me
that to be a good Catholic,
I had to confess at church if I ever had
impure
thoughts about a girl.
That very evening I had to rush to confess
my sin. And the next night,
and the next. After a week, I decided religion
wasn't for me.
-- Fidel Castro
Most people are bothered by those passages
of Scripture they do not
understand, but the passages that bother me
are those I do understand.
-- Mark Twain
When things are troubling you and you can't
sleep, try counting
your blessings before you count sheep.
-- Ziggy
May you kiss those you please, and please
those
you kiss!
-- Author Unknown
Sometimes in my dreams there are women,
When
such dreams
happen, immediately I remember "I am a monk."
-- Dalia Lama
God is not dead. He is alive and working;
working
on a less ambitious
project.
-- Author Unknown
The future is like heaven - everyone exalts
it, but no one wants
to go there now.
-- James Baldwin
God has been replaced, as he has all over
the
West, with respectability and
air conditioning.
-- Imamu Amiri Baraka
God is not willing to do everything, and
thus
take away
our free will and that share of glory which
belongs to us.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
A man with God is always in the majority.
-- John Knox
I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier.
-- A Mother's Plea for Peace (1915)
God has two homes Heaven and a grateful
heart.
-- Thomas S. Monson
Every day people are straying away from the
church and
going back to God.
-- Lenny Bruce
My father never lived to see his dream come
true of an
all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.
-- David Steinberg
Let me tell you the one thing I have
against
Moses. He took
us forty years into the desert in order to
bring us to the one
place in the Middle East that has no oil!
-- Golda Meir
The only thing that stops God from sending
another flood is
that the first one was useless.
-- Nicholas Chamfort (1741-1794)
Lord give me chastity -- but not yet.
-- Saint Augustine (354-430)
So watch the thought and its ways with
care,
And let it spring
from love Born out of concern for all beings.
--The Buddha
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to
the
soul and healing
to the bones.
--Proverbs 16:24
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in
the sun
when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is
gone.
--Roy R. Gilson
May you live all the days of your life.
--Jonathan Swift
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety
beasties
And things that go bump in the night, Good
Lord, deliver us!
--Cornish Prayer
Christian Fundamentalism: The
doctrine
that there is an absolutely
powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe
spanning entity that
is deeply and personally concerned about my
sex life.
-- Author Unknown
If I were going to convert to any religion
I would probably choose
Catholicism because it at least has female
saints and the Virgin Mary.
-- Margaret Atwood
Don't make me come down there!
-- God
There is a God.
-- Rush Limbaugh
God help the man who won't marry until he
finds
the perfect woman,
and God help him still more if he finds her.
-- Author Unknown
For those who say I can't impose my
morality
on others, I say just
watch me.
-- Joseph Scheidler, Executive Director,
Pro-Life Action League
The command, "Be fruitful and multiply,"
was
promulgated, according
to our authorities, when the population of
the world consisted of two persons.
-- Dean William R. Inge
Life is the music that dances through our
days,
our nights and our years. May
yours be a symphony!
-- Marie A. Glossop
May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus, too,
And
every
gentle wind that blows send happiness to you.
May you live to be one hundred years, with one extra year to repent.
As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never
point
in the
wrong direction.
May your right hand be always stretched out in friendship and never in want.
May you get all your wishes but one so you'll always have
something
to
strive for. (Thanks to File
MåireSpillane
for these 5)
Christianity is the land of beginning again.
-- W. A. Criswell
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it
awake
and moving.
-- Frederick Buechner
One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you
can join
in whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that
your neighbor
can do the same.
-- Charles Dudley Warner
Prayer is the little implement
Through which men reach
Where presence is denied them.
-- Emily Dickinson
Science leads us, step by step, through the whole range of
creation,
until
we arrive, at length, at God.
-- Margauerite de Valois
Some people are so heavenly minded that they're no earthly good.
-- Susan Stafford
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our
enemies;
probably because they are generally the same people.
-- G.K. Chesterton
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world
but
his
having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
-- A. Robert Turgot
"What do you think of God," the teacher asked. After a
pause,
the young
pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel."
-- Paul Frost
The hardest thing in
the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert
Einstein
Actually we
wouldn't mind Uncle Sam's tax bite if he didn't come back for dessert.
-- Author
Unknown
April is the
time of year when the green returns to the trees, the lawns,
and the
Internal Revenue Service.
-- Author
Unknown
Don't get
excited about a tax cut. It's like a mugger giving you back
fare for a
taxi.
-- Arnold
Glasow
There are two
distinct classes of men -- those who pay taxes,
and those who
receive and live upon taxes.
-- Thomas
Paine
When there is
an income tax, the just man will pay more
and the unjust
less on the same amount of income.
-- Plato
The government
that robs Peter to pay Paul can always
depend upon the
support of Paul.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
There is no art
which one government sooner learns from another
than that of
draining money from the pockets of the people.
-- Adam
Smith
Like mothers,
taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten.
-- Lord
Bramwell
But in this
world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
--
Benjamin Franklin
A taxpayer is
someone who works for the federal government,
but who doesn't
have to take a civil service examination.
-- Ronald
Reagan
Isn't it appropriate that the Month
of the
Tax begins with April
Fool's Day, and ends with cries of 'May Day!'?
-- Author Unknown
Our government really takes care of
us...They
even give us free
income tax forms!!
-- Author Unknown
Income tax Uncle Sam's version of
'Truth or
Consequences.'
-- Author Unknown
Taxation is a lot like sheep
shearing...As
long as you shear a
sheep it will continue to produce a new crop
of wool. But you can
skin the animal only once.
-- Author Unknown
If the chance of getting a tax audit
is
1000
to 1,
why is it 50/50 that it will be you?
-- Author Unknown
Definition of 25 cents: $1
with all
the
taxes taken out.
-- Author Unknown
The tax collectors take up so much
of your
earnings to balance the
budget that you just can't budget your balance.
-- Author Unknown
If Congress can pay farmers not to
raise
crops,
why can't we pay
Congress not to raise taxes?
-- Author Unknown
People who squawk about their income
tax
can
be divided into two
classes:
Men
Women.
-- Author Unknown
When filling out my income-tax form,
can I
claim the government as
a dependent?
-- Author Unknown
Income-tax forms should be printed
on
Kleenex...
So many of us pay
through the nose.
-- Author Unknown
We wouldn't mind paying income tax
if we
could
know which country
it's going to.
-- Author Unknown
Behind every successful man stands a
woman
and the IRS. One takes
the credit, the other takes the cash.
-- Author Unknown
Taxation is the gentle art of
picking the
goose
in such a way as
to secure the greatest amount of feathers
with the least amount
of squawking.
-- Author Unknown
Why not slap a tax on political gas?
-- Author Unknown
You really can't beat the game. If
you earn
anything, it's minus
taxes. If you buy anything it's plus taxes.
-- Author Unknown
The path of Civilization is paved
with tax
receipts.
-- Author Unknown
Happy is the man who can say that his taxes
are sent off,
for he will never cease to be amused at his
refund.
-- Author Unknown
There is always death and taxes. However,
death
doesn't get worse every
year.
-- Author Unknown
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you
shoot
at tax
collectors and miss.
-- Lazarus Long
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a
fine for doing well.
-- Author Unknown
The wages of sin are death, but by the time
taxes are taken out,
it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone
There is always death and taxes; however
death
doesn't get worse
every year.
-- Author Unknown
Nothing hurts more than having to pay an
income
tax, unless it is not
having to pay an income tax.
-- Thomas Robert Dewar
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United
States.
The only thing is -- I could be just as proud
for half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey
A citizen can hardly distinguish between a
tax and a fine, except
that a fine is generally much lighter.
-- G.K. Chesterson
The taxpayer: Someone who works for
the
government but doesn't
have to take a civil service examination.
-- Ronald Reagan
Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal,
a tool making animal, a
building animal, a political animal, a
fantasizing
animal. But, in the
twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a
taxpaying animal.
-- Hugh MacLennan
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never a convenient
time for any
of them.
-- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was
bad, he
should see how bad it is WITH representation.
-- The Old Farmer's Almanac
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?
The taxidermist only takes your skin.
-- Mark Twain
When I give a lecture, I accept that people
look at their watches,
but what I do not tolerate is when they look
at it and raise it to
their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard
Some speakers electrify their listeners;
others
only gas them.
-- Sydney Smith
When I am getting ready to reason with a
man,
I spend one third
of my time thinking about myself and what
I am going to say and
two thirds about him and what he is going
to say.
-- Abraham Lincoln
No man would listen to you if he didn't
know
it was his turn next.
-- Ed Howe
It is all right to hold a conversation but
you should let go of it now
and then.
-- Richard Armour
One function of diplomacy is to dress
realism
in morality.
-- Will and Ariel Durant
No man would listen to you if he didn't
know
it was his turn next.
-- Ed Howe
It is all right to hold a conversation but
you should let go of it
now and then.
-- Richard Armour
Blessed are those who have nothing to say and who cannot be
persuaded
to say it.
-- James Russel Lowell
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say
and
can't,
and the other half consists of people who have nothing to say and
keep
on saying it.
-- Robert Frost
If you are going to be able to look back on something and laugh
about
it,
you might as well laugh about it now.
-- Marie Osmond
If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them
it's
confidential.
-- Farmer's Digest
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can
get you
into hot water.
-- Franklin P. Jones
One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he
starts
talking.
-- Louis L'Amour
One of your resolutions should be to speak softly and
sweetly.
If your
words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow when
you have
to eat them.
-- Author Unknown
Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always
know
what you are
going to be thinking tomorrow.
-- Glen Beaman
The three secrets of success in public speaking are:
be sincere,
be brief,
be seated.
-- Author Unknown
The trouble with people who don't have much to say is that you
have
to listen
so long to find out.
-- Ann Landers
Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker " let it go
at
that
instead of giving a demonstration?
-- Kim Hubbard
Every now and again take a good look at
something
not made with hands -
a mountain, a star, the turn of a
stream.
There will come to you wisdom
and patience and solace and, above all, the
assurance that you are not
alone in the world.
-- Sidney Lovett
Beautiful young people are acts of nature,
but beautiful old people
are works of art.
-- Author Unknown
One may understand the cosmos, but never
the
ego; the self
is more distant than any star.
-- G.K. Chesterton
I am particularly fond of the little groves
of oak trees. I love
to look at them, because they endure the
wintry
storm and the
summer's heat, and - not unlike ourselves
- seem to flourish by
them.
--Tatanka Yotanka (Sitting Bull)
We are all wanderers on this earth, our
hearts
full of wonder,
and our souls deep with dreams......
-- Author Unknown
Man is demolishing nature. We are
killing
things that
keep us alive.
-- Thor Heyerdahl
When asked by an anthropologist what the
Indians
called
America before the white man came, an Indian
said simply,
"Ours."
-- Vine Deloria, Jr.
Women speak two languages, one of which is
verbal.
-- Steve Rubenstein
Women who seek to be equal with men lack
ambition.
-- Timothy Leary
Woman are like elephants to me. I
like
to look at them but I wouldn't
like to own one.
-- W.C. Fields
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never breaks her own laws.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our
dreams
and
cherishes our fancies.
-- Victor Hugo
A good
photograph is knowing where to stand.
-- Ansel
Adams
Drama is life with the dull bits cut
out.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord
Jones died' to people
who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton
When you read a classic you do not see in
the
book more than you
did before. You see more in you than
there was before.
-- Clifton Fadiman
I bet Leonardo da Vinci was naked when he
painted
the Mona Lisa.
That's the same smirk my wife has when she
sees me naked.
-- Andy Pierson
For more of Andy's original thoughts, visit
him at: http://i.bet.homepage.com
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to
the body.
-- Joseph Addison
No man means all he says, and yet very few
say all they mean,
for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-- Henry B. Adams
There's nothing remarkable about it. All
one
has to do
is hit the right keys at the right time and
the instrument
plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
The more the marble wastes, the more the
statue
grows.
-- Michelangelo (Buonarroti)
It is with noble sentiments that bad
literature
gets written.
-- Andre Gide
The pleasantest things in the world are
pleasant
thoughts: and
the great art of life is to have as many of
them as possible.
--Montaigne
Most people die before they are fully born.
Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
-- Erich Fromm
I hate flowers. I only paint them because
they're
cheaper
than models and they don't move.
--Georgia O'Keefe
Every child is an artist. The problem is
how
to remain an artist
once he grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso
It took me 15 years to discover I had no
talent
for writing,
but I couldn't give it up because by that
time I was too famous.
--Robert Benchley
Writing is the only profession where no one
considers you
ridiculous if you earn no money.
--Jules Renard
My purpose is to entertain myself first and
other people secondly.
-- John D. MacDonald
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would
rather that my spark should
burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should
be stifled by dry rot. I would
rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me
in magnificent glow, than
a sleepy and permanent plant. The proper
function
of man is to live, not
to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying
to prolong them. I shall use
my time.
-- Jack London
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the
paralyzing
suspicion
that he is trying to be funny.
--- Guy Davenport
Music washes away from the soul, the dust
of
everyday life.
-- Author Unknown
To be 'matter of fact' about the world is
to
blunder into fantasy--and
dull fantasy at that, as the real world is
strange and wonderful"
--Robert A. Heinlein
'Tis the good reader that makes the good
book.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A new warrior arises. One who rides the
currents
of the Wind,
Dances with the Mother, and lays all weapons
down in Peace.
-- Kari Holman Windwalker
People who read me seem to be divided into
four groups:
Twenty-five percent like me for the right
reasons; 25%
like me for the wrong reasons; 25% hate me
for the wrong
reasons; 25% hate me for the right
reasons.
It's that
last 25% that worries me.
-- Robert Frost
To limit the press is to insult a nation;
to
prohibit reading
of certain books is to declare the inhabitants
to be either
fools or slaves.
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius
The truest expression of a culture is in
its
dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
-- Author Unknown
There is a great discovery still to be made
in literature: That of paying literary men
for the quantity they do not write.
-- Thomas Carlyle
There is not money in poetry, but then
there
is not poetry in money, either.
-- Robert Graves
Poets, we know, are very sensitive people,
and in my observation, one of the
things they are most sensitive about is cash.
-- Robert Penn Warren
You don't have to suffer to be a
poet.
Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi
I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't
have
to.
-- Elvis Presley
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
-- Emile Zola
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to
others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
-- Leo Tolstoy
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is
knowing
which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it,
you can become it.
-- William Arthur Ward
Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic.
That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
-- L. Bernstein
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
-- Quintilian
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe
what
he does;
that's what counts.
-- David Hockney
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable,
changeless
state,
it were cause indeed to weep.
-- William Cullen Bryant
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone
into
its writing.
-- Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world
unbearable.
-- George E. Shaw
You cannot paint the "Mona Lisa" by assigning one dab each to a
thousand
painters.
-- William F. Buckley, Jr.