Jessica Crabtree

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” (Rumi)

“Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.” (Albert Camus)

“Drawing is like an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.” (Henri Matisse)

“A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.”

“No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problems whatsoever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them.”

“Live your life so that whenever you lose, you’re ahead.”

“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”

“Don’t waste too much pity on poor old China; she will be here when some strange race of people will be excavating some of our skyscrapers and wondering what tombs they were.”

“That’s the trouble with our charities, we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain’t eating.”

“You can’t pick up a paper without seeing where the Marines were landed to keep some nation from shooting each other, and if necessary we shoot them to keep them from shooting each other.”

“Hawaii is the only place I know of where they lay flowers on you while you are alive.”

“History ain’t what it is; it’s what some writer wanted it to be.”

“The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.”

“Every time the government moved the Indians, they gave them the same treaty: ‘You shall have this land as long as the grass grows and the water flows.’ But finally they settled the whole Indian problem. They put the Indians on land where the grass won’t grow and the water won’t flow!”

“There are only a few original jokes, and most of them are in Congress.”

“You know, horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” (Oscar Wilde)

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce we could use the boulevards for children’s playgrounds.

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what is the matter-he’s got to just know.

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” (Leonardo da Vinci)

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” (Aristotle)