Quotes
Quotes about Art
He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]
Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society . . .
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.
Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
This is the last of earth! I am content.
Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, 'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Laugh, if thou art wise.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.
