Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
- Martin Buxbaum - In Old Age
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I paint with shapes.
- Alexander Calder - In Art
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My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
- Alexander Calder - In Art
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
- Alexander Calder - In Art
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
- Eugene Delacroix - In Art
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
- Max Eastman - In Art
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So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
- Alexander Eliot - In Art
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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox - In Art
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When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell - In Business
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
- Andre Malraux - In Business
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
- Max de Pree - In Business
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
- Alexis de Tocqueville - In Business
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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
- Richard M. Nixon - In Equality
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Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
- Malcolm X - In Equality
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Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
- Joseph Roux - In Experience
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To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
- Alexander Chase - In Forgiveness
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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
- Alexander Chase - In Forgiveness
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More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
- Alexander Chase - In Forgiveness
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
- Alexander Chase - In Forgiveness
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When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
- Alexander Chase - In Forgiveness
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
- Alexander Pope - In Forgiveness
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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
- Joseph Roux - In Friendship
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I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
- Groucho Marx - In Humor
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx - In Humor
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
- Karl Marx - In Government
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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
- Alexander Woollcott - In Government
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Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
- James Knox Polk - In History
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Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
- James Knox Polk - In History
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
- Alexis de Tocqueville - In History
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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
- Max Eastman - In Humor
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Humor is reason gone mad.
- Groucho Marx - In Humor
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope - In Humor
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - In Imagination
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
- Aldous Huxley - In Intelligence
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
- Alexander Pope - In Intelligence
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - In Life
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Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - In Love
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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
- Groucho Marx - In Marriage
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Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner.
- Alex Cox - In Movies
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley - In Music
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux - In Nature
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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
- Joseph Roux - In Poetry
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton - In Politics
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- Alexis de Tocqueville - In Politics
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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
- Deng Xiaoping - In Politics
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
- Macneile Dixon - In Science
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Henry Huxley - In Science
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Henry Huxley - In Science
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
- Thomas Henry Huxley - In Science
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
- Maxwell Planck - In Science
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
- Maxwell Planck - In Science
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - In Technology
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Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
- Max Frisch - In Technology
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- Aldous Huxley - In Technology
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - In War
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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
- Richard M. Nixon - In War
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