The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ~Agnes Repplier
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ~Carl Jung
Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. ~Frederick Douglas
If you look at his portraits they always give you an indelible impression of his great height. So does his life. Height of purpose, height of ideal, height of character, height of intelligence. ~David Lloyd George
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ~Mary Ellen Mark
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill. ~Erma Bombeck
I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ~Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Perigord
Two souls, one heart. ~French saying used on poesy rings
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. ~Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. ~Will and Ariel Durant, The Reformation
Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ~Jimmy DeMaret
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. ~Dame Edith Sitwell
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant. ~Edna Ferber, A Kind of Magic, 1963
May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~Daniel Webster
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ~H.L. Mencken
If only Hitler and Mussolini could have a good game of bowls once a week at Geneva, I feel that Europe would not be as troubled as it is. ~R.G. Briscow
A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card. ~Edgar A. Shoaff
There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides. ~Philip Howard
I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees. ~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898
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