The progressive Arts

Rather be a slave to a rich man than the spouse of a poor man.

Pull someone by the ears and his head will follow.

Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.

Poverty destroys all virtues.

Pearls are of no value in a desert.

Patience is the most beautiful prayer.

Only two things matter in this world: a son and a daughter.

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”  ―  Marilyn Monroe

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”  ―  A.A. Milne

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”  ―  Nicholas Sparks

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”  ―  Abraham Lincoln

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”  ―  Marthe Troly-Curtin

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”  ―  Robert Fulghum

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”  ―  Helen Keller

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”  ―  Shel Silverstein

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”  ―  Virginia Woolf

“You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real.”  ―  Suzanne Collins

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”  ―  Maya Angelou

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”  ―  Marilyn Monroe

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”  ―  J.K. Rowling

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”  ―  Lemony Snicket

“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.”  ―  Albert Einstein

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”  ―  William Shakespeare

“Everything you can imagine is real.”  ―  Pablo Picasso

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”  ―  Bob Marley

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”  ―  Marilyn Monroe

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”  ―  Charles M. Schulz

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

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”  ―  Marilyn Monroe

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”  ―  Woody Allen

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”  ―  Albert Einstein

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”  ―  A.A. Milne

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”  ―  Jorge Luis Borges

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”  ―  Dr. Seuss

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”  ―  Nicholas Sparks

Only the nightingale understands the rose.

Only the hunchback himself knows how he can lie comfortably.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

One person can burn water, while another can't even burn oil.

One of the two partners always bites the best part of the apple.

One man's house burns so that another may warm himself.

One man's beard is burning, and another warms his hands by it.

One finger can't lift a pebble.

One and one sometimes make eleven.

Nothing is comprehensible except by virtue of its edges.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”  ―  Nicholas Sparks

No strength within, no respect without.

No sin is hidden to the soul.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Never use a dwarf to measure the depth of the water.

Never strike your wife, not even with a flower.

Never stand in front of a judge or behind a donkey.

Most adults are attentive to what someone is doing, but children see beyond that.

Money is the best servant.

Money hides in the tiger's ear.

Many families are built on laughter.

Man loves his own mistakes.

Man is like a bubble of water on the ocean.

Love from someone who is bad is worse than his hatred.

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.

Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Learning is a treasure no thief can touch.

Large desire is endless poverty.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Justice is better than admiration If you are going to kill, then kill an elephant; if you are going to steal make sure it's a treasure.

It's easy to throw something into the river but hard to get it out again.

It's better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors.

It's a brave bird that makes its nest in the cat's ear.

It is worse to excuse than to offend.

It is only in your coffin that you sleep really well.

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire.

It is hard for an ex-king to become a night watchman.

It is easy to forget a kindness, but one remembers unkindness.

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”  ―  John Lennon

“Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.”  ―  David Sedaris

“The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”  ―  Karen Marie Moning

“Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.”  ―  Cassandra Clare

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”  ―  Erich Fromm

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”  ―  Oscar Wilde

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”  ―  F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Yes!” said Fang, punching the air. “Freaks rule.”  ―  James Patterson

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”  ―  Ovid

“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”  ―  Tamora Pierce

“She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me. "Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing. I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came.”  ―  Rick Riordan

“We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek our fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving. And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.”  ―  Suzanne Collins

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”  ―  J.K. Rowling

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”  ―  Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”  ―  Gloria Naylor

“The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.”  ―  Jodi Picoult

“Can I come in? No! I'm in a towel! I'm blind!”  ―  James Patterson

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,  And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”  ―  John Gillespie Magee Jr.

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”  ―  Robert A. Heinlein

“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”  ―  John Lennon

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”  ―  Mark Twain

“If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.”  ―  Kathleen Tessaro

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”  ―  Kahlil Gibran

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”  ―  Jeffrey Eugenides

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”  ―  Robert Frost

“Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”  ―  Chuck Palahniuk

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”  ―  Cormac McCarthy

“You really love her don't you," she said. With all my heart." She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her. What's your heart telling you to do?" I don't know." Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.”  ―  Nicholas Sparks

“If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.”  ―  Walt Disney Company

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”  ―  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”  ―  W. Somerset Maugham

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”  ―  Hunter S. Thompson

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”  ―  Jonathan Safran Foer

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”  ―  Jane Smiley

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”  ―  Maya Angelou

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”  ―  Keith Richards

“Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."  "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!”  ―  J.K. Rowling

“You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”  ―  J.K. Rowling

“Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.”  ―  Cassandra Clare

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”  ―  Elizabeth Gilbert

“Paris is always a good idea.”  ―  Audrey Hepburn

“No," Dimitri interrupted gently. He moved his face toward mine, our foreheads nearly touching. "It won't happen to you. You're too strong. You'll fight it, just like you did this time." "I only did because you were here." He wrapped his arms around me, and I buried my face in his chest. "I can't do it by myself," I whispered. "You can," he said. There was a tremulous note in his voice. "You're strong—you're so, so strong. It's why I love you.”  ―  Richelle Mead

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”  ―  Stephen King

“It's a coffee cup." She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup." "I can't wait till you draw something really complicated, like the Brooklyn Bridge or a lobster. You'll probably send me a singing telegram.”  ―  Cassandra Clare

“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”  ―  Whitney Otto

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”  ―  Lewis Carroll

“If you want to be happy, be.”  ―  Leo Tolstoy

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”  ―  Mother Teresa

“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”  ―  Jane Austen

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”  ―  Mahatma Gandhi

“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”  ―  William Goldman

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”  ―  Charles M. Schulz

“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”  ―  George Carlin

“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”  ―  Mitch Albom

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”  ―  Paulo Coelho

“those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that   Charles Bukowski

“When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.” ―  Catherine Gilbert Murdock