Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating. Laurel Lea Humor #Against #Faith #Shield
I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses. Tom Stoppard Arts #Against #Trust #Values
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. Ambrose Bierce Success #Against #Fellows #Sin
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it. Mary Cassatt Arts #Against #Life #Window
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. Henry Ward Beecher Arts #Against #Medicine #Sickness
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. Thomas W. Higginson Humor #Against #Defense #Fortune