Quotes
Quotes about Art
I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love, and providence
Do act the parts.
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
Not that the earth doth yield
In hill or dale, in forest or in field,
A rarer plant.
To man the earth seems altogether
No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.
Even as a surgeon, minding off to cut
Some cureless limb,--before in ure he put
His violent engins on the vicious member,
Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber,
And grief-less then (guided by use and art),
To save the whole, sawes off th' infested part.
Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.
Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
Remember the old saying, "Faint heart never won fair lady."
Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.
You can see farther into a millstone than he.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
The understanding is always the dupe of the heart.
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Great thoughts come from the heart.
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
To arms! to arms! ye brave!
The avenging sword unsheathe!
March on! march on! all hearts resolved
On victory or death!
