Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 9

• The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

  Barbara Jordan

  Art, Differences, Individuality

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• It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

  Andrea Barrett

  Writing, People, Secret

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• I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

  Sean Pertwee

  Boots, Pairs, Unnecessary

  "Pertwee reveals sexual panting". Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. February 20, 2008.

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• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, People, Rich

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Fruit, Libertarian

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• Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

  Robert Breault

  Preparation, Might, Realizing

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• Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

  Horace

  Green Fields, Remember You, Remembers You

  Odes 11.3

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

  Horace

  Trust, Seize The Day, Odes

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• The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Liberty, Flags

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1971). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Children, School, Doors

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• If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  People, Generations, Urban

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• I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Writing

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960

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• Yes, I know.
  Death sits with his key in my lock.
  Not one day is taken for granted.
  Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

  Anne Sexton

  Taken, Keys, One Day

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Freedom, Home

  Francis Scott Key, “Defence Of Fort M'Henry”

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• If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Men, Civilization

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• Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

  Evan Esar

  Zoos, Study, Habit

  "Esar's Comic Dictionary". Book by Evan Esar, 1943.

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• The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

  Aristotle

  Men, Lazy, Half

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• There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Dare, Carpe, Coldness

  "The Teaching of Reverence for Life".

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• So act that anything you do may become universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, May, Universal

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• Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

  Stephen Leacock

  Ignorance, Encyclopedia Britannica, Imagination

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

  Corita Kent

  Looks, Way, Look Up

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• Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

  John Cage

  Thinking, Enjoy, Manage

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• In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

  Corita Kent

  Giants, Would Be, World

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• Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

  John Armstrong

  Pain, Grief, Joy

  John Armstrong, John Aikin (1804). “The Art of Preserving Health”, p.143

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