quotes on painting

Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success. ~Jim Backus



It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland



Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski



Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ~e.e. cummings



In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. ~Frank McKinney Hubbard



Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605



Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. ~James Laver, Style in Costume



Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb



All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. ~Bob Lemon, 1981



Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown



We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart. ~Margaret Gibb



Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~William E. Barrett



Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious. ~David Williams, an Ashtanga yoga teacher in Maui, Hawaii, quoted from yoga.com Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "On the Pitying," Thus Spake Zarathustra



Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. ~William James



Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. ~Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957



Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes. ~Author Unknown



Men can read maps better than women. 'Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equaling a hundred miles. ~Roseanne Barr



Jim Bakker spells his name with 2 k's because 3 would be too obvious. ~Bill Maher



Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ~Adlai Stevenson