Quotes
Quotes about Art
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.
Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.
The homegrown tomato is best (in reference to choosing a marriage partner).
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.
I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.
It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.
Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife, Who has no will but by her high permission; Who has not sixpence but in her possession; Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell; Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell. Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.
Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! my heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.
The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.
I am a part of all that I have met.
If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.
