Browse Quotes

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

— Plato

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

— Sir Ronald Mason

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

— A. Alvarez