The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
Johann von Goethe
If I had to put a sign over my door, I would write "School of Drawing" and I'm certain that I would create painters.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
Charles Baudelaire
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.
Barbara Burrow
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon III
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them
Victor Hugo
Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.