Favorite Quotes

"Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!" - Louverture

 

"Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence." - Durer

 

"Have a very good reason for everything you do." - Olivier

 

"A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them." - Linnæus

 

"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate." - Pinero

 

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Emerson

 

"Life is too short for a long story." - Montagu

 

"There is no friendship in trade." - Vanderbilt

 

"Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity." - Moore

 

"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem." - Chesterton

 

"Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing." - Bourne

 

"We convince by our presence." - Whitman

 

"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are." - Cecil

 

"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art." - Hardy

 

"To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight." - Smith

 

"I believe that true art is universal in its appeal." - McCormack

 

"All money is a matter of belief." - Smith

 

"Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare." - Corneille

 

"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." - Gauguin

 

"Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait." - Reade