Edgar Degas

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
- Edgar Degas

Latin Proverb

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
- Latin Proverb

Blaise Pascal

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
- Blaise Pascal

Alfred A. Montapert

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
- Alfred A. Montapert

Hannah Arendt

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt

Edmund Burke

Good order is the foundation of all things.
- Edmund Burke

Rumi

“When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
- Rumi

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1974)

Immanuel Kant

"One of the best and purest joys is having a rest after labor."
- Immanuel Kant

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Neil Gaiman

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
- Neil Gaiman

Nancy Astor

"The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you."
- Nancy Astor

Peter Drucker

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
- Peter Drucker

Chuck Palahniuk

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Dont be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Logan Pearsall Smith

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

Ray Kroc

In business for yourself, not by yourself.
- Ray Kroc

Mary O'Connor

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.
- Mary O'Connor

Norman Vincent Peale

We tend to get what we expect.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Japanese proverb

The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.
- Japanese proverb

Augustus Hare

“Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life’s recollections.”
- Augustus Hare

Abraham Lincoln

“Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Leo Buscaglia

"Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?'"
- Leo Buscaglia

Thomas Alva Edison

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Charles M. Schulz

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles M. Schulz

Whitney Young Jr.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
- Whitney Young Jr.

George Orwell

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- George Orwell

Robert Ingersoll

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
- Robert Ingersoll

Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Oscar Wilde

Thomas Edison

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
- Thomas Edison

Voltaire

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
- Voltaire

Mark Twain

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark Twain