Quotes About Age

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Age

Quotations & Citations:

I am not young enough to know everything.
~ Oscar Wilde

 

 

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

 

~ Doug Larson

 

 

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
~ Mark Twain

 

 

Voltaire

 

 

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

 

~ Leroy “Satchel” Paige

 

 

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
~ C.S. Lewis

 

 

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

 

~ Samuel Ullman

 

 

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 

 

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

 

~ Douglas MacArthur

 

Kurt Vonnegut

 

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
~ Herbert Hoover

 

 

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

 

~ Chili Davis

 

 

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

 

 

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

 

~ Nikita Ivanovich Panin

 

James Cameron

 

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
~ H.L. Mencken

 

 

The years teach much which the days never knew.

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
~ Edgar Allan Poe

 

Dylan Thomas

 

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

 

~ George Bernard Shaw

 

 

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
~ Oscar Wilde

 

 

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

 

~ John Mortimer

 

Marilyn Monroe

 

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

 

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.

 

~ Charles Dickens

 

 

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

 

~ Robert Southey, The Doctor

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

 

~ John Barrymore

 

 

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

 

 

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
~ Charles M. Schulz

 

 

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?

 

~ Satchel Paige

 

Nicholas Sparks

 

I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
~ Virginia Woolf

 

 

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

 

~ Bob Hope

 

 

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
~ George Burns

 

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

 

 

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

 

~ Caryn Leschen

 

 

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
~ Sophia Loren

 

 

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

 

~ Victor Hugo

 

Memories warm you up from the inside.  But they also tear you apart.

 

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
~ Sherman Alexie

 

 

Everyone is the age of their heart.

 

~ Guatemalan Proverb

 

 

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
~ George Orwell

 

 

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

 

~ Dorothy Fulheim

 

If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.

 

Age is a terrible thief. Just when you’re getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
~ Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

 

 

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

 

~ Tom Stoppard

 

 

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
~ Madeleine L’Engle

 

 

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.

 

~ Judith Regan

 

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

 

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
~ Milan Kundera

 

 

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

 

~ Mark Twain

 

 

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

 

 

It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.

 

~ Brigitte Bardot

 

 

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
~ Garrison Keillor

 

 

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

 

~ Robert Browning

 

 

Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
~ Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give

 

 

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

 

~ Herbert Asquith

 

 

It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.
~ Andy Rooney

 

 

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

 

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

 

Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

 

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
~ Hayao Miyazaki

 

 

The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
~ Edmund Waller

 

Life is not happening to you.  Life is responding to you.

 

His hair isn’t turning gray—it’s turning silver, and it’s going up in value. Aging is the best hedge against an inflationary fiat currency.
~ Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

 

 

As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.
~ Doris Lessing

 

 

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
~ Mark Twain

 

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit

 

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

 

~ Martin Buxbaum

 

 

Old age ain’t no place for sissies.
~ Bette Davis

 

 

I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

 

~ T.S. Eliot

 

 

Thirty–the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

 

 

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

 

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

 

By the time you’re thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

 

 

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

 

~ Henri Amiel

 

 

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
~ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

 

 

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

 

~ Saint Aurelius Augustine

 

 

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
~ Karl Lagerfeld

 

 

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

 

~ Charles Dickens

 

 

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
~ Oscar Wilde

 

 

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

 

~ Charles Lamb

 

 

I’m gonna enjoy being old I think I’ll be awesome at it.
~ Craig Ferguson

 

 

Life is one long process of getting tired.

 

~ Samuel Butler

 

 

Twenty-three is old. It’s almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.
~ Jessica Simpson

 

 

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

 

~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac

 

 

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
~ Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

 

 

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

 

~ John M. Wagner

 

 

When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.
~ Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

 

 

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

 

~ Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

 

 

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The
reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
~ George Sand

 

 

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

 

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

 

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

 

~ Ogden Nash

 

 

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
~ Lyman Bryson

 

 

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

 

~ Truman Capote

 

 

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Prose and Poetry

 

 

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

 

~ Eddie Murphy

 

 

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
~ Alex Shakar

 

 

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

 

~ Jean Rostand

 

 

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.
~ Cindy Crawford

 

 

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.

 

~ Liz Smith

 

 

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
~ Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

 

 

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

 

~ Emily Dickinson

 

 

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
~ Michael Pritchard

 

 

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.

 

~ Daniel Defoe

 

 

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

 

Age is a prison from which we cannot escape
but only by death,
into another world.
~ Morrow Bourne

 

 

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

 

 

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
~ William Butler Yeats

 

 

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.
~ Charles Frazier

 

 

You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.

 

~ Arnold Palmer

 

 

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
~ David Gemmell

 

 

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.
~ Neil Gaiman

 

 

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

 

~ Jennifer Yane

 

 

I am older than your age and younger than your body.
~ Santosh Kalwar

 

 

 

Quotes About Sports

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Sports

Quotations & Citations:

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
~ Babe Ruth

 

 

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

 

~ Steve Garvey

 

 

Winning isn’t everything–but wanting to win is.
~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

 

 

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

 

~ John Madden

 

 

The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
~ John Bingham

 

 

I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models…. It’s not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn’t like it, they said, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.” Parents have to take better control.

 

~ Charles Barkley

 

 

It ain’t over ’til it’s over.
~ Yogi Berra

 

 

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.

 

~ Vince Lombardi

 

 

Many people say I’m the best women’s soccer player in the world. I don’t think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.
~ Mia Hamm

 

 

With the money I’m making, I should be playing two positions.

 

~ Pete Rose

 

 

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

 

 

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

 

~ Jack Handey

 

 

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
~ Rodney Dangerfield

 

 

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.

 

~ Jason Love

 

 

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
~ William Arthur Ward

 

 

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn’t do you any good.

 

~ Abe Lemmons

 

 

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
~ Tiger Woods

 

 

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I’m only six feet tall, so I couldn’t play basketball. I’m only 190 pounds, so I couldn’t play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn’t be a referee.

 

~ Jay Leno

 

 

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
~ Wayne Gretzky

 

 

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

 

~ Sylvester Stallone

 

 

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
~ Babe Ruth

 

 

Professional wrestling’s most mysterious hold is on its audience.

 

~ Luke Neely

 

 

Football is like life – it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

 

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.

 

~ Nick Seitz

 

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

 

~ Jerry Barber

 

 

The thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.
~ Terry Pratchett

 

 

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you’ve got patience. They’d both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy — and a little more patient.

 

~ Bo Jackson

 

 

You don’t just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.
~ Mia Hamm

 

 

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

 

~ Sam Snead

 

 

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
~ Hank Aaron

 

 

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

 

~ Al McGuire

 

 

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.
~ Jessica Park

 

 

If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

 

~ Vince Lombardi

 

 

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what’s left.
~ Yogi Berra

 

 

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

 

~ Emil Zatopek

 

 

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
~ Jim Bouton

 

 

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

 

~ Ron Bolton

 

 

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
~ Knute Rockne

 

 

If you screw things up in tennis, it’s 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it’s your ass.

 

~ Randall “Tex” Cobb

 

 

I like cup holders—in cars, as well as in jockstraps. I would have played football, but the only helmet I had belonged to a bicycle that coach said was illegal on the field.
~ Jarod Kintz, Xazaqazax

 

 

I was called “Rembrandt” Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

 

~ Bob Hope

 

 

I’m the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.
~ Bret Hart

 

 

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you’re in a slump. If you lose at the end, you’re choking.

 

~ Gene Mauch

 

 

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
~ Gordie Howe

 

 

In play there are two pleasures for your choosing –
The one is winning, and the other losing.
~ Lord Byron

 

 

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
~ Billie Jean King

 

All sports are games of inches.

 

~ Dick Ritger

 

 

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
~ Dan Gable

 

 

Sports strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

 

~ Rita Mae Brown

 

 

If you gone come in second, you’re just the first loser!
~ Tiger Woods

 

Cricket is baseball on valium.

 

~ Robin Williams

 

 

I realize I’m black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody’s wish.
~ Michael Jordan

 

 

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.

 

~ Vince McKewin

 

 

The strong one doesn’t win, the one that wins is strong.
~ Franz Beckenbauer

 

 

Sports is a preserver of health.

 

~ Hippocrates

 

 

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
~ Mike Singletary

 

 

The bowling alley is the poor man’s country club.

 

~ Sanford Hansell

 

 

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
~ Tom Landry

 

 

There’s more to boxing than hitting. There’s not getting hit, for instance.

 

~ George Foreman

 

 

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
~ Phil Jackson

 

 

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start — but they can’t when they finish.

 

~ Martin H. Fischer

 

 

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
~ Jesse Owens

 

 

Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor.

 

~ Abe Lemons

 

 

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

 

Quotes About Blessings

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Blessings

Quotations & Citations:

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.
~ Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You

 

 

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~ Irish Blessing

 

May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.

 

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
~ C.S. Lewis

 

 

May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!
~ Irish Blessing

 

 

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

 

 

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

 

 

Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you

 

 

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert

 

 

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.

 

~ Irish Blessing

 

 

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
~ Thomas Paine

 

 

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.
~ Irish Blessing

 

 

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.

 

~ Maya Angelou

 

May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all your heart might desire.

 

May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.
~ Irish Blessing

 

 

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

 

 

May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks
May your heart be as light as a song
May each day bring you bright
Happy hours that stay with you all the year long.
~ Irish Blessing

 

 May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send happiness to you.

 

I count as blessings things I could have benefited from, even if I neglected to utilize them. A gift is still a gift, even if left wrapped and unopened.
~ Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

 

 

May you always have walls for the winds,
a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.
~ Irish Blessing

 

 A sunbeam to warm you. A moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel so nothing can harm you.

 

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.
~ Thomas Goodwin

 

 

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~ Irish Blessing

 

 

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
~ William Arthur Ward

 

 

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
~ Irish Blessing

 

 

You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life.
~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

 

 

May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live.
~ Irish Blessing

 

 

Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.
~ Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

 

 

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that’s always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
~ Irish Blessing

 

 

Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician’s karmic calamity.
~ T.F. Hodge

 

 

Sometimes we focus so much on what we don’t have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!
~ Jeff Dixon

 

 

Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.
~ Janette Oke

 

 

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
~ Eric Hoffer

 

 

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
~ Mother Teresa

 

 

Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!
~ Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

 

 

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
~ Lydia Maria Francis Child

 

 

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.
~ Ezra Taft Benson

 

 

Money can’t buy no blessins.
~ Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me

 

 

Quotes About Fear

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Fear

Quotations & Citations:

I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
~ Woody Allen

 

 

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

 

~ Mary Manin Morrissey

 

 

Do one thing every day that scares you.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

 

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.

 

~ Marie Curie

 

 

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

 

 

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

 

~ Bill Cosby

 

 

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
~ John Lennon

 

 

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.

 

~ Usman B. Asif

 

 

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune

 

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

 

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.

 

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

Bran thought about it. Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.
~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

 

 

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear — fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable.  What he wants above everything else is safety.

 

~ Henry Louis Mencken

 

 

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent

 

 

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

 

~ George S. Patton

 

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

 

Fear cuts deeper than swords,
~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

 

 

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

 

~ Andre Gide

 

 

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

 

 

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

 

~ Arnold Glasow

 

 

Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.
~ C. JoyBell C.

 

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God

 

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

 

~ Henry H. Tweedy

 

 

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

 

 

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon

 

 

It is better to know what to fear than to say “no fear.”

 

~ Tim Fargo

 

Do one thing every day that scares you, Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

 

 

Fear is the highest fence.

 

~ Dudley Nichols

 

 

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

 

 

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

 

~ James Hastings

 

 

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
~ Jim Morrison

 

If you want to conquer fear don't sit home and think about it go out and get busy

 

To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

 

~ Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

 

 

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
~ Salvador Dalí

 

 

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

 

~ Ruth Gendler

 

 

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato

 

 

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

 

~ Shirley Maclaine

 

 

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room

 

 

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

 

~ Bertrand Russell

 

 

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

 

 

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

 

~ Brendan Francis

 

 

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
~ Nelson Mandela

 

 

Fear cannot take what you do not give it.

 

~ Christopher Coan

 

 

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.
~ Jarod Kintz

 

 

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
~ Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

 

 

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

 

~ Benjamin Disraeli

 

 

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

 

 

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

 

~ Joseph Campbell

 

 

Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
~ Dante Alighieri, Inferno

 

 

There are times when fear is good.  It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.

 

~ Aeschylus

 

 

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
~ Taylor Swift

 

 

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

 

~ Samuel Butler

 

 

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant

 

 

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.  I would like to see you living in better conditions.

 

~ Hāfez

 

 

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
~ Andrew Solomon

 

 

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

 

~ German Proverb

 

 

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 

 

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.

 

~ Lloyd Douglas

 

 

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

 

 

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

 

~ Seneca

 

 

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

 

 

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

 

~ Rosa Parks

 

 

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address

 

 

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.

 

~ Arab Proverb

 

 

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida

 

 

Don’t fear, just live right.

 

~ Neal A. Maxwell

 

 

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

 

~ Maurice Freehill

 

 

Without fear there cannot be courage.
~ Christopher Paolini

 

 

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.

 

~ Sophie Tunnell

 

 

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.
~ Stephen Richards

 

 

He who fears something gives it power over him.

 

~ Moorish Proverb

 

 

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska

 

 

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

 

~ French Proverb

 

 

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
~ Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

 

 

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

 

~ Mark Twain

 

 

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
~ Aristotle

 

 

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

 

~ Donald Dowes

 

 

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.
~ Lemony Snicket

 

 

 

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Laughter is poison to fear.
~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

 

 

To lead is difficult when you’re a follower of fear.

 

~ T.A. Sachs

 

 

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
~ Francis Chan

 

 

 

Quotes About Dogs

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Dogs

Quotations & Citations:

Happiness is a warm puppy.
~ Charles M. Schulz

 

 

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

 

~ Ben Williams

 

 

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
~ Marilyn Monroe

 

 

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

 

~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull

 

 

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
~ Groucho Marx

 

 

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
~ Mark Twain

 

 

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
~ Mark Twain

 

 

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.
~ Milan Kundera

 

 

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

 

~ Agnes Repplier

 

 

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
~ Mark Twain

 

 

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
~ Mark Twain

 

 

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
~ Josh Billings

 

 

Properly trained, a man can be dog’s best friend.

 

~ Corey Ford

 

 

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
~ Will Rogers

 

 

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

 

~ Max Eastman

 

 

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
~ Mark Twain

 

 

A dog is not “almost human” and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

 

~ John Holmes

 

 

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
~ Jack London

 

 

If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.

 

~ Will Rogers

 

 

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
~ Johnny Depp

 

 

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

 

~ Roger Caras

 

 

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.
~ Charles M. Schulz

 

 

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

 

~ Ambrose Bierce

 

 

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
~ Dean Koontz, False Memory

 

 

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

 

~ O.A. Battista

 

 

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

 

~ Edward Hoagland

 

 

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
~ Andy Rooney

 

 

The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.

 

~ Henry Ward Beecher

 

 

The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.
~ Carrie Underwood

 

 

The greatest love is a mother’s; then a dog’s; then a sweetheart’s.

 

~ Polish Proverb

 

 

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
~ Roger A. Caras

 

 

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

 

~ Christopher Morley

 

 

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
~ Roger A. Caras

 

 

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater… suggest that he wear a tail.

 

~ Fran Lebowitz

 

 

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
~ Roger A. Caras

 

 

Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot little puppies.

 

~ Gene Hill

 

 

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.
~ Cesar Millan

 

 

The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.

 

~ Portuguese Proverb

 

 

If you can look at a dog and not feel vicarious excitement and affection, you must be a cat.

 

~ Carrie Latet

 

 

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
~ Abraham Lincoln

 

 

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.

 

~ Margo Kaufman

 

 

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
~ Orhan Pamuk

 

 

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

 

~ Rita Rudner

 

 

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
~ Martin Luther

 

 

The greatest 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

 

 

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.
~ Jim Butcher

 

 

 

Quotes About Guns and Gun Control

Gun Quotes

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Guns and Gun Control

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

 

The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824

 

 

Violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.
~ Louis L’Amour, The Daybreakers

 

 

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~ Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

 

 

I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.
~ George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788

 

 

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.
~ Mao Tse Tung

 

 

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.
~ James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789

 

 

My view of guns is simple. I hate guns and I cannot imagine why anyone would want to own one. If I had my way, guns for sport would be registered, and all other guns would be banned.
~ Deborah Prothrow-Stith (Dean of Harvard School of Public Health)

 

 

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.
~ Patrick Henry

 

 

I don’t care if you want to hunt, I don’t care if you think it’s your right. I say ‘Sorry.’ it’s 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.
~ Rosie O’Donnell

 

 

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
~ Joseph Story

 

 

I bought original, real guns of the type we used in ‘Tomb Raider’ for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. And yes, I’d be able to use it if I had to … If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I’ve no problem shooting them.
~ Angelina Jolie

 

 

I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

 

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
~ Stephen King

 

 

America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong.
~ Brad Pitt

 

 

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
~ Clint Eastwood

 

 

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns… When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren’t shooting at humans… we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.
~ Johnny Depp

 

 

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.
~ James Earl Jones

 

 

It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
~ Chuck Palahniuk

 

 

The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.
~ Ted Nugent

 

 

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
~ Ted Nugent

 

 

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.
~ George Washington

 

 

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
~ Thomas Jefferson

 

 

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.
~ Sigmund Freud

 

 

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.
~ Jeff Cooper, Art of the Rifle

 

 

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense.
~ John Adams

 

 

An armed society is a polite society.
~ Robert Heinlein

 

 

It’s very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It’s easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.
~ Fred Rogers

 

 

Remember the first rule of gunfighting … have a gun.
~ Jeff Cooper

 

 

There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men.
~ Robert A. Heinlein

 

 

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
~ Charlton Heston

 

 

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.
~ James Burgh

 

 

But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you … it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
~ Dalai Lama

 

 

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right or that it’s too much of a public safety hazard, don’t see the danger in the big picture. They’re courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don’t like.
~ Alan M. Dershowitz

 

 

The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
~ Samuel Adams

 

 

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
~ Larry Elder

 

 

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
~ Mother Teresa

 

 

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.
~ James Madison

 

 

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
~ G. K. Chesterton

 

 

I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
~ Alan Alda

 

 

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense.
~ John Adams

 

 

The right to defend one’s home and one’s person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
~ Martin Luther King

 

 

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.
~ Noah Webster

 

 

That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
~ George Orwell

 

 

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
~ Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

 

 

The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops.
~ Noah Webster

 

 

It’s better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
~ Christian Slater

 

 

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
~ Alfred Hitchcock

 

 

A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.
~ James Madison

 

 

Now they’re tryin’ to take my guns away
And that would be just fine
If you take ‘em away from the criminals first
I’d gladly give you mine
~ Charlie Daniels Band, A Few More Rednecks

 

 

You don’t spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
~ Helen Thomas

 

 

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.
~ Joe Perry, Aerosmith

 

 

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.
~ James Madison

 

 

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
~ Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776

 

 

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government – and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
~ Edward Abbey

 

 

 

Quotes About Art

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Art

Quotations & Citations:

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

~ Pablo Picasso

 

 

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

~ John Ruskin

 

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

 

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

Art is Man’s nature. Nature is God’s art.

~ James Bailey

 

 

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

We have art to save ourselves from the truth

 

 

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

~ Marie Laurencin

 

 

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
~ Pablo Picasso

 

 

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

~ G.K. Chesterton

 

 

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see

 

 

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

~ Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

 

 

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

~ Walter Gropius

 

 

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

~ Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War

 

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action

 

 

Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.

~ Jules Feiffer

 

 

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

~ Émile Zola

 

 

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

~ George Bernard Shaw

 

Confucius

 

 

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

~ Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

 

 

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

 

Thomas Merton

 

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
~ Vincent van Gogh

 

 

Art is art, even when unsuccessful.

~ Danish Proverb

 

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

 

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

~ Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

 

 

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

~ Aristotle

 

 

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~ Pablo Picasso

 

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius

 

My inspiration is art… because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.

~ Daniel R. Lynch

 

 

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
~ Woody Allen

 

 

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

~ Pablo Picasso

 

 

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

~ Edgar Degas

 

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

 

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt.

~ Odilon Redon

 

 

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

 

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

~ Claes Oldenburg

 

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

 

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

 

 

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

 

What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

 

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything

 

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

~ George Moore

 

 

We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

~ Bob Ross

 

 

Art is a kind of illness.

~ Giacomo Puccini

 

 

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

~ Rick Riordan

 

 

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves

 

 

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

~ William McElcheran

 

 

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

~ Oscar Wilde

 

 

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

~ Oscar Wilde

 

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others

 

 

I want to meet a guy named Art. I’d take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.

~ Jarod Kintz, I Want

 

 

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

~ Paul Valéry

 

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation

 

 

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
~ Vincent van Gogh

 

 

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

~ Pablo Picasso

 

 

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
~ Oscar Wilde

 

Don't criticize what you cant understand

 

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

~ Elbert Hubbard

 

 

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

~ Lincoln Steffens

 

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you

 

When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

~ Pablo Picasso

 

 

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

~ George Santayana

 

 

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi

 

 

 

What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

~ Willa Cather

 

 

Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… now you tell me what you know.

~ Groucho Marx

 

 

Picasso is not our greatest painter, but he is our greatest artist. He’s the great satyr art figure. His whole life is a work of art.

~ Leonard Baskin

 

 

The human body is the best work of art.
~ Jess C. Scott

 

 

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.

~ Martin H. Fischer

 

 

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

 

 

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

~ John Lennon

 

 

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

~ Kim Nance

 

 

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

 

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

~ Loren Eiseley

 

 

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
~ Pablo Picasso

 

 

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

~ John Lubbock

 

 

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

 

 

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

~ Augustus Saint-Gaudens

 

 

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
~ Hannah Harrington, Saving June

 

 

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

~ Ben Jonson

 

 

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

~ Pablo Picasso

 

 

One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie.

~ Mark Stevens

 

 

An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
~ J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

 

 

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

~ Jean Paul Richter

 

 

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

 

 

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

~ Glenn Close

 

 

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

~ Vincent van Gogh

 

 

Art is the proper task of life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

Art is the triumph over chaos.

~ John Cheever

 

 

The first step – especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money – the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

 

 

The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

~ Pablo Picasso

 

 

Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.
~ Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems

 

 

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

~ John Anthony Ciardi

 

 

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
~ Anton Chekhov

 

 

Art is… a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what’s happening.

~ Aaron Howard

 

 

All art is quite useless.

~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

 

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

~ Georges Rouault

 

 

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
~ Ansel Adams

 

 

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit.

~ John Updike

 

 

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
~ George Bernard Shaw

 

 

Great art picks up where nature ends.

~ Marc Chagall

 

 

 

Art is what you can get away with.

~ Andy Warhol

 

 

Art holds fast when all else is lost.

~ German Proverb

 

 

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

~ Ansel Adams

 

 

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.

~ Edgar Degas

 

 

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

~ Danny Kaye

 

 

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts — such is the duty of the artist.

~ Schumann

 

 

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

~ Stella Adler

 

 

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

~ Amy Lowell

 

 

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

~ Banksy

 

 

Painting is silent poetry.

~ Plutarch

 

 

He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

~ Francis of Assisi

 

 

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

~ Pablo Picasso

Words Of Encouragement

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Encouragement

Quotations & Citations:

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

 

When you get rid of your negative thoughts, positive things will start to happen.

 

 

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.

~ African Proverb

 

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.

~ C. JoyBell C.

 

Nicholas Sparks

 

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths.  No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

~ Mark Twain

 

Don’t let the muggles get you down.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

 

The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.

 

 

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
~ Richard Bach

 

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move On. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

 

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.
~ Joel Osteen

 

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
~ Steve Martin

 

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

 

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.
~ Ed Sheeran

 

You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
~ Tyler Perry

 

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

 

Come friends, it’s not too late to seek a newer world.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

 

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Good Poems for Hard Times

 

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

 

 

Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.
~ Rodolfo Costa

 

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.
~ Deborah Brodie

 

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

 

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.
~ Amy Carmichael

 

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.
~ Albert Schweitzer

No act of kindness is too small. The gift of kindness may start as a small ripple that over time can turn into a tidal wave affecting the lives of many.

 

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body; use yours to lift someone up today.
~ Terri Ann Armstrong

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

 

Never put off writing until you are better at it.
~ Gary Henderson

 

Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this, then other things become possible.
~ Cynthia Patterson

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

 

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.
~ Oprah Winfrey

 

 

Apology Quotes

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Apologizing

Quotations & Citations:

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~ Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

 

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

 

Just because they are sorry doesn't mean that it's ok.

 

Would ‘sorry’ have made any difference? Does it ever? It’s just a word. One word against a thousand actions.
~ Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet

 

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

 

~ Red Auerbach

 

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

 

Chocolate says “I’m sorry” so much better than words.
~ Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Save

 

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

 

~ King Charles I

 

Never forget the nine most important words of any family-

I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

 

It’s easier to apologize than ask for permission.

 

~ Author Unknown

 

Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.
~ José N. Harris

 

Apologizing — a very desperate habit — one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

 

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

 

In this life, when you deny someone an apology,
you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.
~ Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

 

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

 

~ Lynn Johnston

 

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.
~ John Wayne

 

A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

 

~ G.K. Chesterton

 

I wasn’t saying whatever they’re saying I was saying. I’m sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don’t know quite what I’ve done. I’ve tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I’m sorry.
~ John Lennon

 

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.
~ Michael Chabon

 

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

 

~ Margaret Laurence

 

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
~ Amit Kalantri

 

 

Quotes About Appearance

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Appearance

Quotations & Citations:

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
~ Marilyn Monroe

 

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

~ Baltasar Gracián

 

Confucius

 

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, ‘Do trousers matter?’
“The mood will pass, sir.”
~ P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters

 

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

~ Daniel Webster

 

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

 

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
~ Criss Jami

 

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

~ Lord Chesterfield

 

Charles Dickens

 

Nothing is more deceitful, said Darcy, than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

 

The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

~ P.J. O’Rourke

 

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson

 

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

 

Voltaire

 

People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they’re doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.
~ Erica O’Rourke, Torn

 

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

 

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?
~ Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

 

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

~ Jean Cocteau

 

Oscar Wilde

 

No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
~ Naomi Wolf

 

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.

~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

 

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
~ Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

 

Marilyn Monroe

 

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I’m perpetually surprised, but there’s nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
~ David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson