Partane Quotes & Sayings

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it. — Adam Smith

This was the time, when night wasn't quite over but day hadn't quite begun, when thoughts stood out bright and clear and without disguise. — Terry Pratchett

One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty. — James F. Cooper

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist. — Anna Deavere Smith

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool. — Mark Twain

In our own time it has been seen ... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. — Giorgio Vasari