Favorite Quotes

"Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed." - Bergson

 

"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing." - Hunt

 

"Misfortune was my god." - Rimbaud

 

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." - Coleridge

 

"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day." - Liszt

 

"Teach us to give and not to count the cost." - Saint Ignatius

 

"It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are." - Mackintosh

 

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions." - Picasso

 

"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it." - Scott

 

"To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule." - Post

 

"Fortune favors the audacious." - Erasmus

 

"The secret of success is sincerity." - Giraudoux

 

"I always start a painting with the sky." - Sisley

 

"The poetry of the earth is never dead." - Keats

 

"The dreadful burden of having nothing to do." - Boileau-Despreaux

 

"I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee." - Lancaster

 

"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less." - Malraux

 

"Eternity: a moment standing still for ever." - Montgomery

 

"Never judge a work of art by its defects." - Allston

 

"Thou strange piece of wild nature!" - Cibber