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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
by Will Rogers

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers

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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers


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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers

 

A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers

When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow

Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter

Take time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down, breathe deeply, smile.
It's a beautiful world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen

True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein

Without tradition, art is a
flock of sheep without a shepherd.
Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill

It is the function of art to renew our perception.
What we are familiar with we cease to see.
The writer shakes up the familiar scene,
and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- Anais Nin

Where the spirit does not work with the hand,
there is no art.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If being an egomaniac means I believe
in what I do and in my art or my music,
then in that respect you can call me that.
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon

Love of beauty is taste.
The creation of beauty is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The highest art is always the most religious,
and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
- Abraham Lincoln

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture,
society must set the artist free
to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore

In art, the hand can never execute anything
higher than the heart can imagine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

Simplicity and repose are qualities
that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic,
that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -
and there is no experiment up to now
that has found any center in the brain
which corresponds to awareness.
The whole work of meditation is
to make you aware of all that is "mind"
and disidentify yourself from it.
That very separation is the
greatest revolution that can happen to man.
Now you can do and act on only that
which makes you more joyous, fulfills you,
gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty.
But this is possible only if the master in you is awake.
- Osho

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Space is the breath of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed
in the language of logic,
we are engaged in science.
If it is communicated through forms
whose connections are not accessible
to the conscious mind but are
recognized intuitively as meaningful,
then we are engaged in art.
- Albert Einstein

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald

All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart
of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you
and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.
- Osho

It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela

A person who is nice to you,
but rude to the waiter,
is not a nice person.
- Dave Barry

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot

I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy

I look forward to these confrontations with the press
to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things
that come to me as president.
- Jimmy Carter

When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us,
is a very nice thing...
you are talking about the Internet,
you are talking about cell phones,
you are talking about computers.
This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
- Jimmy Carter

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation


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