Overheard at the Counter: The Quote Garden

Just found this today!

So excited!

 

https://www.quotegarden.com/about.html

 

 

 

 

Overheard at Table 3: Thought for the Day

 
"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
— Andre Malraux

Overheard at Booth 3: American Rage

No human demonstrates uncontrolled rage like an American who has been mildly inconvenienced.

Overheard at Table 2: Emigrammia from a Founding Uncle

Nothing is more dangerous to the Pursuit of Life and Liberty than the denial of full and inalienable rights to all our fellow citizens.

                - Joseph Armitage

 

Overheard at Booth 3: Rochefoucauld and Wilde Talk about the Sun and Death

In Booth 3, Francois de la Rochefoucauld opines, "Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye."

Oscar Wilde retorts, "Watching the flight of Icarus, thus, must be doubly vertiginous."

Overheard at Table 1: You are the Poem

YOU 

are the 

POEM

Just write

YOURSELF

 

MR

2023-0418

Overheard at Table 3: Times of Profound and Drastic Change

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

Eric Hoffer, from "Reflections on the Human Condition, 1973.

"In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

Al Rogers

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Why would the puzzle site have gotten this incorrect?  Where did they get the quote from Al Rogers?

 

 

Overheard at Table 2: A Few Quotes for your Daily Devotional

 "Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. "
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without. "
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder, with the truth."
— Alfred Adler

"The greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness."
— Herbert Butterfield

Overheard at Table 2: A Terrible Tragedy

It is a terrible tragedy
that we do not have 
sufficient years
to read all the books
that we want to read.

 

- Giuseppe Salinghetti

 

 

 

Overheard at Table 1: Epigram on Art

5. Art is the communication between the artist and the viewer.

Overheard at Table 3: Epigram on Art

4. Art is not art until absorbed by the river.

NOTE: When reviewing the author's notes, the editors determined that the original transcription had misread "viewer" as "river" ... however they have decided to leave the mistranscription here as it seems more, shall we say, artistic.

Overheard at Booth 3: Epigram on Art

3.  The artist creates only half the art.

        The viewer's reaction is what completes the art.

 

Overheard at Table 2: Epigram on Art

2. Mountain and the Thrush

    The Mountain is not art.

    A painting of the Mountain is art.

    The Thrush is not art.

        The flute that mimics the sound of the Thrush is art.

            Art is short for artifice.

    However, art is more than mere mimicry.

    To put colors and shapes of the Mountain to canvas is mimicry.

    To imitate the sound of the Thrush with the flute is mimicry.

    Such mimicry is merely craft.

    Craft is essential in the creation of art.

            Yet, art is more than the craft.

    Do you know what makes art more than the craft?

        You.

    You looking and you listening.

Overheard at Table 2: Epigram on Art

1. Art is the gift that we give to each other (from the artist to the viewer) - a gift from the artist to those whom the artist will never know.