World's Oldest Menorah

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. - Mark Twain

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept. - T.E. Hulme

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear. - Menachem Begin

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump

I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps