Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. --Walter Savage Landor--

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. --Walt Whitman--

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. --Gustave Courbet--

Life in abundance comes only through great love. --Elbert Hubbard--

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. --Napoleon Bonaparte--

The future will be better tomorrow. --Dan Quayle--

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. --Thomas Browne--

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. --Pierre Bonnard--

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. --Victor Hugo--

Words are but pictures of our thoughts. --John Dryden--

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. --Groucho Marx--

Flowers are happy things. --P. G. Wodehouse--

The perfection of art is to conceal art. --Quintilian--

Love alone could waken love. --Pearl S. Buck--

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin--

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. --Christopher Fry--

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. --Satchel Paige--

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. --Loren Eiseley--

Art is anything you can get away with. --Marshall McLuhan--

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. --Stendhal--