First High-Five

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Burke

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

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

History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy. - Ralphie May

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. - Joan Baez

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

Relationships are about give and take; not tit-for-tat. If you're keeping score, you'll lose at your own game. - Faydra D. Fields

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

It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people. - Axl Rose

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

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

He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. - Kay Boyle

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell