Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
I have been to the end of the earth,I have been to the end of the waters,I have been to the end of the sky,I have been to the end of the mountains,I have found none that are not my friends.
American Indian Proverb, Navajo
Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim.
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.
Sydney Smith
Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.
Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
Ezra Pound
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clich?, not from real life.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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