All Quotes and Proverbs

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."

Henry Ford

Education

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine."

P.J. O`Rourke

Good and Evil

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Anything done for another is done for oneself."

John Paul II

Various

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Anything in life worth having is worth working for!"

Andrew Carnegie

Work and Laziness

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."

Mignon McLaughin

Various

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Aphorism - a grain of wisdom in the shell of words."

Kazimierz Matan

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Aphorism is a phrase that, after removal of context, retains all its meaning, and even gaining a new one."

Kazimierz Matan

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 8.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Forgiveness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Appeal: v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Archeologist: someone whose career lies in ruins."

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Science and Technology

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

Philip Johnson

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 7.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."

Ernest Dimnet

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

Godard-Jean-Luc

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Art compares to nature like wine to the grape."

Franz Grillparzer "Notebooks and Diaries"

Art and Culture

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."

Paul Klee

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Art has to be a kind of confession."

James Baldwin

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

André Gide

Art and Culture

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Art is a jealous mistress."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Conduct of Life"

Art and Culture

Rating: 1.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him."

Carl Gustav Jung

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue."

Benjamin Haydon "Correspondence and Table Talk"

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Art is a revolt against fate."

André Malraux

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem."

Lindsay Anderson

Art and Culture

Question and Problem

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution."

Théophile Gautier

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art and Culture

Nature and Animals

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

Anthony Burgess

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Paul Gauguin

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other."

Neal Cassady

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Art is I; science is we."

Claude Bernard

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.64 (Number of Voters: 11)

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."

Theodor Adorno

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Art is meant to disturb, science reassures."

Georges Braque

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

Lev Tolstoy

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Art is not a thing; it is a way."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

Edgar Degas

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word."

Eric Gill

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature."

Suzanne K. Langer

Art and Culture

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Art is the signature of man."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton "The Everlasting Man"

Art and Culture

Human

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."

Günther Grass

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"

Paul Gauguin "Intimate Journals"

Art and Culture

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

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Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?"

Alexander Theroux "An Adultery"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state."

Cesare Pavese "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"

Art and Culture

Richness and Money

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

Eugene Delacroix

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge, Ignorance

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

William James

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

Albert Einstein

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"As for being a General, well at the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."

Peter Ustinov "Romanoff and Juliet"

Youth and Age

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it."

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de

Time and Passing

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)