Cranach Patheos Quotes & Sayings

Here a tower shining bright
Once stood gleaming in the night
Where now
There's just the rubble in the hole
from White City — Shane MacGowan

Public libraries have succumbed to the same pressures that have overwhelmed the basic cultural functions of museums and universities, aims that should remain what they were, not because the old ways are always better but because in this case they were the right ones: the sustaining of standards, the preservation of quality, the conservation of literacy's history, the education of the heart, eye and mind. Now libraries devote far too much of their restricted space, and their limited budget, to public amusement. It is a fact of philistine life that amusement is where the money is. — William H Gass

Regret for things we have done can be tempered by time, it is regret for things we have not done that is inconsolable. — Sydney J. Harris

My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done. — Warren Buffett

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. — J.H. Wyman

A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret. — Charles Kingsley

Quiet is the new loud. — Patrick Stump

What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody. — Frederick Lenz

'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thought that is true. But the scientist will surely not recognize something which depends on men's varying states of mind to be the firm foundation of science. — Gottlob Frege

They pried into the most secret recesses, ransacked every depository of papers, broke open every lock, and enjoyed the twofold gratification of curiosity and destruction. — Adolphe Thiers

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels. — Stephan Pastis

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement. — Michael Gove