My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion;… — Johann Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations. — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste,… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion. — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
