quotes on canvas
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.... We need silence to be able to touch souls. ~Mother Teresa We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. ~Pearl Buck
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ~Henrik Ibsen
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. ~Marty Feldman
Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ~Steve Almond
The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet. ~Paul Erlich
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is. ~James L. Framo, "Explorations in Marital & Family Therapy"
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ~Howard Aiken
Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. ~Attributed to Gene Baylos
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. ~Elbert Hubbard
Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. ~Abraham Lincoln
Life's too short for chess. ~Henry James Byron, Our Boys, 1874
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912
Hug Department: Always Open ~Author Unknown
To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. ~Michael Servetus
Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye. ~Grey Livingston
They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. ~Gene Roddenberry
A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. ~August Bier
