painting quotes on canvas

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~Golda Meir



Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~Henry Kissinger



He that is not jealous is not in love. ~St. Augustine



They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"



The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf



If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn't get so many punctures. Earth's revenge. ~Jo Burt (Thanks, Jacquie)



Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. ~Author Unknown



The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. ~Vincent Starrett, Buried Caesars



Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~Garrison Keillor



There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers. ~H.M. Tomlinson



If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson



Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. ~Henry David Thoreau



Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles



No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. ~Henry Van Dyke



Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~George Bernard Shaw



Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993



Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. ~Judith Martin