L.A. Paul Quotes

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.

Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savages.

Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.

Few great men could pass Personnel.

You build on cost and you borrow on value.

It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Enthusiasm is life.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

The best way to keep your friends is to never owe them anything and never lend them anything.

There is but one good throw upon the dice which is to throw them away.

"What do you think of God " the teacher asked. After a pause the young pupil replied "He's not a think he's a feel."

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

We must not seek happiness in peace but in conflict.

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world ... when we buy it for someone else.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world when we buy it for someone else.

Hope that star of life's tremulous ocean.

Never get married in the morning because you never know who you'll meet that night.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

It is no rest to be idle.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.

For love ... is the blood of life the power of reunion in the separated.

Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body heart and mind the responsibility of flattering in our place the self of which we are not very certain.

Love is a spendthrift leaves its arithmetic at home is always 'in the red'.

Young men wish: love money and health. One day they'll say: health money and love.

Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains.

Nature thrives on patience man on impatience.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

One must learn a different... sense of time one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.