Michelangelo Buonarroti Famous Quotes
"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
"Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend."
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed"
Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotations
"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them."
Homer
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
Margaret Lee Runbeck
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
Alex Carey
"I've learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back."
Child Age 9
"If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat)"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
I have a problem about being nearly sixty I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
Elizabeth Janeway
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr
He who puts up with insult invites injury.
Jewish Proverb
"Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible."
William Faulkner