The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. George Santayana

Quotes November 23, 2008

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Arts and Artists
Quotations by George Santayana

We are not hypocrites in our sleep. William Hazlitt

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.SleepQuotations by William Hazlitt

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.RetirementQuotations by Malcolm …

I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.Jokes and JokersQuotations by Samuel Johnson

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.Crime and CriminalsQuotations by Johann Wolfgang Von …

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.ConflictQuotations by German Proverb

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.CivilizationQuotations by George William Curtis

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.MusicQuotations by Zimbabwe Proverb

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.Science and ScientistsQuotations by Adam Smith

“The frequency of outbreaks is a reflection of the lack of a surveillance system.” – Noureddin Mona

The function of posterity is to look after itself.PastQuotations by Dylan Thomas