Michelangelo Quote

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

D. H. Lawrence

Life is short, the art long.

Hippocrates

The art is long, life is short.

Hippocrates

• Art

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus

• Man

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Pythagoras

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

Hans Christian Andersen

• God
• Life

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

Henrik Ibsen

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

Saint Patrick

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

Michel de Montaigne

• Man

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Charles Dickens

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Gustave Flaubert

• Art

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

William Faulkner

• Conscience
• Morality

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

Hippocrates

• Art

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Aeschylus

• Praise

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkner

• Time

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

• Philosophy
• Happiness

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Martin Luther

• Soul
• Music