Art, Religion, Expectations, Friends Quotes

ART
Harold Rosenberg
An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

RELIGION
Pierre-Jules Renard
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he didn’t.

EXPECTATIONS
Wendy R. Wellner
What can you expect from a day that starts with getting up?

FRIENDS
Rita Rudner
When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

Gratitude, Society, Expectations, Lying

GRATITUDE
J. Kenfield Morley
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

SOCIETY
Norman Kingsley Mailer
The horror of the Twentieth Century is the size of each event and the paucity of its reverberation.

EXPECTATIONS
Martin Luther
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

LYING
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is.

Belief, Education, Expectations, Drink

BELIEF

Werner Erhard
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

EDUCATION

Anatole France
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

EXPECTATIONS

Erich Fromm
Love is nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

DRINK

Clifton Fadiman
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.