"Originality is for those without the guts to plagiarize." -Audrey Adams
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." -Douglas Adams
"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars, etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."-Douglas Adams
"There are two types of people in this world: those who believe the world can be divided in to two kinds of people, and those who don't." --Benchley
"I hope I never get so old I get religious." -Ingmar Bergman
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." -Ambrose Bierce
"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." -Ambrose Bierce
"I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people."- Ed Bluestone
"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." -A. Whitney Brown
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." --H. Jackson Brown
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." --Leo Burnett
"Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."- George Burns
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." -Albert Camus
"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten."- George Carlin
"Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and never will be again."- Pablo Casals
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." --Charlie Chaplin
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." --Charlie Chaplin
"A man must sit with his mouth open for a long time before a roast duck flies in." --Chinese Proverb
"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." --Chinese Proverb
"He who asks is a fool for a few minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." --Chinese Proverb
"Chitlins? That's pig intestines! That includes the lower tract. Ain't no food down in that area. Chitlins--I think somebody misspelled that word." --Bill Cosby
"Ah, Celeste, my pretty jewel, I love you as a pig loves the mud !" --Creole Proverb
"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you will be amoung the stars."- Sammy Davis Jr.
"Dream as though you will live forever live as you if you die today." --James Dean
"Virus filters are basically just an attempt to use an unlimited supply of bandaids to treat a case of Ebola." --Anthony DeBoer
"I think; therefore I am." -Rene Descartes
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." -Charles Dickens
"Those that understimate the power of the human spirit are destined to fail." --Dragomaster Alex
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Don't keep a negative attitude, such as "I will not succeed, I will not succeed." Instead, keep a positive attitude: "I WILL fail. I WILL fail."- Albert Einstein
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." -Albert Einstein
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." -Albert Einstein
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." --Albert Einstein
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." --T.S. Elliot
"People only see what they are prepared to see." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Money often costs too much." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." --Gandhi
"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight."- George Gobel
"Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter."- Zane Gray
"When in a room only lit by a candle and the wind blows, you can either enjoy the breeze or loath the darkness." -Rizwan Haroon
"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." -Robert A. Heinlein
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." -Joseph Heller
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -Heraclitus
"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough." -Bede Jarrett
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."-Javan
"If ignorance is bliss, then why the hell do we go to school."- Tammy Jones
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."- Erica Jong
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." -C. G. Jung
"Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not?" --Robert F. Kennedy
"He who angers you conquers you." -Elizabeth Kenny
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God(or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world,nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window." -Stephen King
"The female of the species is more deadly than the male."-Rudyard Kipling
"It's not the survival of the fittest, it's the survival of the slickest." -Kohan's Law
"In a mad world, only the mad are sane." -Akiro Kurosawa
"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things." -Alphonse de Lamartine
"I told him, 'Son, what is it with you. Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"- Frank Laydne
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes." -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is safer to be feared than loved."-Niccolo Machiavelli
"If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room." -Macho Man
"As with anything I do, I think everything is based on reactions and responces." -Marilyn Manson
"It?s when you take things away that kids enjoy is when you cause problems for them, you know, people always think that heavy metal, or rock and roll had been the source of the problem, but it?s when you start to deprive them of that, it?s when they start to get bitter." -Marilyn Manson
"A piece of paper or piece of cloth doesn't mean anything. It?s what you believe. And I want people to think about what they believe. I want them to consider if everything they?ve been taught, if that?s what they believe or if that?s what they?ve been told they have to believe?? -Marilyn Manson
"I like it as a book[the bible]. Just like I like the "Cat in the Hat." -Marilyn Manson
"Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished." -Orison Swett Marden
"?Happiness is a large family, in another state!"-Groucho Marx
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." -Herman Melville
"If my dreams were rain drops, I would have drowned a long time ago."-Michael Nakonechny
"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."- Lawrence J. Peter
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allen Poe
"The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy. Love and hate are the same things; different sides of the same coin." -Pogo
"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."- Torrin Polk
"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago" - Dan Quayle
"I haven't been to Minnesota since the last time I was there." - Dan Quayle
"There is always something more important than what you are doing."- Sriram Ramkrishna
"A life is not important except for the impact it has on other lives"- Jackie Robinson
"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects"- Will Rogers
"I am unique, just like everyone else."-Raoul Röntsch
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." -Bertrand Russell
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz
"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."-Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." -George Bernard Shaw
"Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." -George Bernard Shaw
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it." -George Bernard Shaw
"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy." -George Bernard Shaw
"A bird can fly, but a fly can't bird." --Tao of Pooh
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." -Henry David Thoreau
"A circle is the longest distance to the same point." --Tom
"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?" --Lily Tomlin
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific." --Lily Tomlin
"If you can't convince them, confuse them." --Harry S. Truman
"I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better" -Shopie Tucker
"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." -Mark Twain
"The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven." -Mark Twain
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." -Mark Twain
"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."- 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 a man."- Mark Twain
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and not seem stupid, than to open it and release all doubt."- Mark Twain
"Heaven's for climate, hell's for company." -Mark Twain
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."- Mark Twain
"Everything goes wrong all at once." -Thyme
"Don't promise the moon if you can only deliver Uranus."-Chris Uminowicz
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes, too." -Unknown
"Don't wait for life to grab you. Grab life." -Unknown
"No matter where you go, there you are." -Unknown
"When searching for the truth, think of our planet as a bubble-gum ball covered in ants." -Unknown
"A dream is nothing more than reality not yet acted upon." -Unknown
"Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow." -Unknown"
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg." -Unknown
"If you're arguing with an idiot make sure he isn't doing the same thing." -Uknown
"Forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them more" -Unknown
"It's better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you are not." -Unknown
"Be who you are, and not what they are." -Unknown
"Life is too short not to take chances" -Unknown
"Do it today, because tomarrow you might not be able to." -Unknown
"To the world you are nobody, but to someone you are the world." -Unknown
"Smart is when you only believe half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know which half to believe." -Unknown
"Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." -Unknown
"If you're not lighting any candles, don't complain about the dark" -Unknown
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you're standing alone." -Unknown
"I wish they would only take me as I am." -Vincent Van Gogh
"If there's anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity." -Bill Vaughan
"I don't need drugs to make my life tragic." --Eddie Vedder
"A long dispute means both parties are wrong." --Voltaire
"Never apologize and never explain. It's a sign of weakness."-John Wayne
"A friend told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him." --John Wayne
"Advertising is legalized lying." --H.G. Wells
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested, and the frog dies of it." --E.B. White
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." --Oscar Wilde
"A grapefruit is a lemon that had a chance and took advantage of it." --Oscar Wilde
"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read." --Oscar Wilde
"All women grow up to be like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No men do. That is theirs." --Oscar Wilde
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."- Oscar Wilde
"Ah, yes, divorce...from the Latin word meaning to rip a man's heart out through his wallet."- Robin Williams
"A true friend stabs you in the front." -Oscar Wilde
"There are only two great tragedies in life. The first is not getting what you wanted. The second is getting it."-Oscar Wilde
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." -Oscar Wilde
"A doctor can always bury his mistakes. An architect can only advise his client to plant ivy." --Frank Lloyd Wright
"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches fifty, and a fool if he doesn't drink afterward." --Frank Lloyd Wright
"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read." --Frank Zappa
"If children knew what their parents were really like, they'd kill them in their sleep." --Frank Zappa
“Procrastination means never having to say you’re sorry.” -Unknown
“A friend in need is a pest indeed.” -Unknown
“A closed mouth gathers no foot.” -Unknown
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
“Don’t be so humble-you are not that great.” -Golda Meir
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” -Sir Winston Churchill
“Give me a museum and I’ll fit it.” -Pablo Picasso
“In the end, we will remember not the worlds of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” -Henry Ford
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” -Oscar Wilde
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” -Salvador Dali
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” -Plato
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.” -Ian L. Fleming
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” -Thomas Alva Edison
“Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.”-Aldous Huxley
“I’ve had a wonderful time, but this wasn’t it.” -Groucho Marx
“We didn’t lose the game, we just ran out of time.” -Vince Lombardi
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” -Antoine de Saint Exupery
“If you want to make an apple pie form scratch, you must first create the universe.” -Carl Sagan
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” -Jimi Hendrix
“A clear man commits no minor blunders.” -Goethe
“A witty saying proves nothing.” -Voltaire
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” -Henry Ford
“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” -Warren Zevon
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” -David Henry Thoreau
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” -Seneca
“Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.” -Ambrose Bierce
“Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches.” -the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.” -Gore Vidal
“Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.” -Samuel Palmer
“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.” -Sir Winston Churchill
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” -Niels Bohr
“We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?” -Niels Bohr
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” -Albert Einstein
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” -John F. Kennedy
“Everything has been figured our, except how to live.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.” -Goethe
“In the end everything is a gag.” -Charlie Chaplin
“The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.” -Lucille S. Harper
“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” -Yogi Berra
“He who hesitates is a damned fool.” -Mae West
“You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.” -Sach Guitry
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” -Honore de Balzac
“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” -Aristotle Onassis
“I am not young enough to know everything.” -Oscar Wilde
“The object of war is not to die for you country but to make the other bastard die for his.” -General George Patton
“There is no sincerer love than the love food.” -George Bernard Shaw
“The covers of this book are too far apart.” -Ambrose Bierce
“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.” -Henry David Thoreau
“The difference between pornography and erotic is lighting.” -Gloria Leonard
“I have never let me schooling interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain
“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.” -George Bernard Shaw
“The average person thinks he isn’t” -Father Larry Lorenzoni
“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.” -Mark Twain
“We are not retreating-we are advancing in another direction.” -General Douglas MacArthur
“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.” -John Buchan
“The agnostics prayer: ‘O God, if there is a god, save my soul, if I have a soul.” -Ernest Renan
“I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.” -Jules Renard
“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.” -Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.” -George Bernard Shaw
“Most people have some sort of religion-at least they know what church they’re staying away from.” -John Erskine
“America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.” -John Barrymore
“America is a country that doesn’t know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.” -Laurence J. Peter
“This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books that we do for chewing gum.” -Elbert Hubbard
“Don’t get the idea that I’m one of those goddamn radicals. Don’t get the idea that I’m knocking the American system.” -Al Capone
“Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.” -Robert Frost
“America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy-and won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.” -Bill Vaughan
“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.” -John Gunther
“Who was the first around the moon? An atheist Russian or God-fearing Americans?” -Don Carpenter
“If we let idiots like the Black Panthers survive under our from of government, maybe we’ll have to change it.” -Frank Rizzo
“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country a ways from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.” -John Wayne
“A thousand years hence, perhaps in less, American may be what Europe is now...the noblest work of human wisdom, the grand scene of human glory, the fair cause of freedom that rose an fell.” -Thomas Paine
“Double-no triple-our troubles and we’d still be better off than any other people on earth.” -Ronald Regan
“I don’t see much future for the Americans...Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it’s half judaized, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a state like that to hold together?” -Adolph Hitler
“There must have been something so very right about Americanism, for in the days it was practiced it brought us from thirteen undeveloped colonies to the world’s greatest ever nation and brought Americans to new highs in life, liberty and well-being.” -J. Kesher Kahn
“What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.” -Arnold Glasow
“We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.” -Will Rogers
“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.” -George Glemenceau
“The country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” -Theodore Roosevelt
“This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless it is a good place for all us to live in.” -Richard M. Nixon
“At the moment the United States is the most powerful, the most prosperous, and the most dangerous country in the world.” -Robert Maynard Hutchins
“The US is the most dangerous and destructive power in the world.” -Anthony Lewis
“I think we must save America from the missionary idea that you must get the whole world on the American way of life. This is really a big world danger.” -Gunnar Myrdal
“There is a malaise that exists in your land-what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare.” -J.J. Greene
“We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.” -Reubin Askew
“The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition, and incompetence.” -Elbert Hubbard
“True, there is government harassment, but there still is that relative freedom to fight. I can attack my government, try to organize to change it. That’s more than I can do in Moscow, Peking, or Havana.” -Saul Alinksy
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake!” -Sigmun Freud
“I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.” -Eldridge Cleaver
“No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless congress understands it. And unless congress understand it, the American people aren’t going to understand it.” -W. Averell Harriman
“The American Revolution was a beginning, no a consummation.” -Woodrow Wilson
“[America is] still the best country for the common man-white or black....if he can’t make it here he won’t make it anywhere else.” -Eric Hoffer
“Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character: it is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent.” -Theodore Roosevelt
“Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.” -Henry Ward Beecher
“I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.” -James Thurber
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” -George Orwell
“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” -Abraham Lincoln
“We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.” -Bill Vaughan
“Behind each beautiful wild fur there is an ugly story. The animal is not killed- it is tortured. I don’t think a fur coat is worth it.” -Mary Tyler Moore
“Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” -Mark Twain
“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
“If modern civilized man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.” -Chrisitian Morgenstern
“I believe all animals were provided by God to help keep man alive.” -Iwgo Fujita
“Young gorillas are friendly but they soon learn.” - Will Cuppy
“Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.” -Josh Billings
“All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.” -Samuel Butler
“We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude toward these human animals.” -Heinrich Himmler
“...when one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
“I tend to be suspicious of people whose love of animals is exaggerated; they are often frustrated in their relationships with humans.” -Ylla(Camilla Koffler)
“[Being] good to animals...the bad man’s invariable characteristic.” -Robert W. Chambers
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.” -George Bernard Shaw
“The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.” - Baron de Montesquieu
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” -Edmund Burke
“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.” -Edmond de Goncourt
“In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t trade unionist. Then they came for the Chatholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.” -Martin Niemseller
“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.” -Helen Keller
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” -Elbert Hubbard
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” -Pablo Picasso
“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.” -Tristan Tzara
“If that’s art, I’m a Hottentot!” -Harry S. Truman
“All art is a revolt against man’s fate.” -Andre Malrawx
“Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.” -Lord Beaverbrook
“Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of man kind passes with him.” -FDR
“He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.” -James Thurber
“Bad artists always admire each other’s work.” -Oscar Wilde
“It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don’t paint badly like other people.” -Geogre Moore
“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.” -Paul Valery
“Art is the difference between seeing and just identifying.” -Dean Mary Norman
“Everything is art if it is chosen by the artist to be art.” -Samuel Adams Green
“One reassuring thing about modern art is that things can’t be as bad as they are painted.” -M. Walthall Jackson
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” -Jon Ciardi
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” -George Moore
“He paints as a bird sings.” -Paul Signac, of Monet
“He bores me. He ought to have stuck with his flying machines.” -Augeste Renoir, of Leonardo da Vinci
“There is nothing new in art except talent.” -Anton Checkhov
“Art is either a revolutionist or a plagiarist.” -Paul Gaugion
“With an apple I will astonish Paris.” -Paul Cezanne
“I shut my eyes in order to see.” -Paul Gauguin
“It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own; your sensation, your intelligence, and your should will triumph over the eye of the amateur...Do not finish your work too much.” -Paul Gauguin
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” -Leonardo da Vinci
“A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.” -Grandma Moses
“Less is more.” -Miles van der Rohe
“We shape our buildings; there after they shape us.” -Winston Churchill
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.” -Pablo Picasso
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” -Pablo Picasso
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” -George Bernard Shaw
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.” -Robert Motherwell
“Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.” -Jean Dubuffet
“A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.” -Jean Cocteau
“The artist is a perceptual window.” -Jack Chambers
“Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.” -Ben Jonson
“When one is painting one does not think.” -Raphael Sancio
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” -Michelagelo
“To paint a fine picture is far more important than to sell it.” -Edward Alden Jewell
“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized.” -Aldolf Hitler
“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 were stupid.” -Jules Feiffer
“An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.” -Franklin P. Jones
“Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future was one reached the age to write an autobiography.” -Evelyn Waugh
“The lives of great men rarely remind us of anything sublime.” -Lord Vansittart
“In architecture, the beauty is in the line and design. In painting, it is the form and color. In works of fine art, it is the craftsmanship. Possession of these things brings pleasure to some, but the real joy comes from the enjoyment of their beauty.” -William Ross
“If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.” -Benjamin Franklin
“When the candies are out all women are fair.” -Plutarch
“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.” -Laurence J. Peter
“Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin-skinned people.” -Richard Armour
“Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.” -General Lew Wallace
“Beauty-the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.” -Leon Battista Alberti
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” -Stendinal
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” -Kahlil Gibran
“I’m tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want an adorable pancreas?” -Jean Kerr
“It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.” -Phyllis Diller
“Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.” -George Bernard Shaw
“Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella.” -Don Marquis
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,/ Old Time is still a-flying:/And this same flower that smiles today,/ tomorrow will be dying.” -Robert Herrick
“Every great man nowadays and his disciples, and it I always Judas who writes the biography.” -Oscar Wilde
“A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.” -Thomas Carlyle
“We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.” -Arthur Hoppe
“Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was the fifth.” -Clarence Darrow
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” -Margaret Sanger
“A society which practices death control must at the same time practice birth control.” -John Rock
“Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.” -Bella Abzug