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Bread Quotes

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. – Omar Khayyam

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. – Cat Stevens

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. – Georges Bernanos

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

Acorns were good until bread was found. – Francis Bacon

Advertising is the ‘wonder’ in Wonder Bread. – Jef I. Richards

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. – Robert Grosseteste

And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. – Sharron Angle

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. – Milton Berle

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. – W. H. Auden

At my age, I don’t buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know? – Merle Haggard

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. – Nikolai Berdyaev

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Woodrow Wilson

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it’s hard to say no. I can’t even have one piece, because when I start, I don’t stop. – Daniela Pestova

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present. – William Tyndale

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread! – George Rogers Clark

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on. – Ambrose Bierce

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. – Charles Horton Cooley

Eaten bread is forgotten. – Thomas Fuller

Failure Quotes and Sayings

Posted on May 20, 2011May 20, 2011 by

If we will learn what failure is, we will know what courage and success are. Now let’s read some wonderful failure quotes.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you’re accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ~Thomas Edison

There are defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” ~S.I. Hayakawa

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ~Elbert Hubbard

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ~William Feather

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage. ~George Horace Lorimer

You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure. ~George Cukor

There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. ~Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air, 1946

You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure. ~Kenneth Boudling

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones

What’s your favorite? :D

Art Quotes

Posted on January 7, 2011January 8, 2011 by

– “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

– “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

– “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso

– “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

– “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” – William Faulkner

– “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

– “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler

– “Painting is silent poetry.” – Plutarch

– “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci

– “It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” – Kojiro Tomita

– “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell

– “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Schumann

– “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” – Pablo Picasso

– “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” – Henri Matisse

– “The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.” – Robert Brault

– “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley

– “Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

– “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

– “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

– “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand

– “All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker

– “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde

– “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

– “It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” – Henry Moore

– “Pictures must not be too picturesque.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – André Gide

– “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” – Wynetka Ann Reynolds

– “But that’s what being an artist is – feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.” – The New Yorker