Quotes - Ann (annbe) (Randolph Center, VT) Showing 1-19 of 19

#1

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: dante, italian-medieval-poetry, nostalgia, à-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu

#2

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37988 likes

#3

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46489 likes

#4

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32151 likes

#5

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

34020 likes

#6

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

23870 likes

#7

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life, regrets

18617 likes

#8

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: reality

8430 likes

#9

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational

5052 likes

#10

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

5077 likes

#11

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: art, life, paradox

1300 likes

#12

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art

3110 likes

#13

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science

5281 likes

#14