I happen to think that American politics is one of the…

Growing up, my dad used to say that politics was the noblest profession. Most would scoff at that, today. Most probably would have when…

— Jake Auchincloss

“I know not why, but all the noblest arts hold in perfection but for a very little moment. They soon reach a height from…

— Samuel Butler

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with…

— Elbert Hubbard

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is…

— Bessie Head

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

— Harry Greb

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

— Theodore White

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

— Edmond Halley

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in…

— John Ruskin

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for…

— Thomas Malory

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

— Mark Twain

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.

— Henry David Thoreau

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake…

— Albert Camus