Mandela Perspective

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Fame is the thirst of youth. - Lord Byron

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

Fame is proof that the people are gullible. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

Happiness is not the end of life; character is. - Henry Ward Beecher

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Public behavior is merely private character writ large. - Stephen Covey

Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. - Joshua Reynolds

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. - Paul Newman

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold. - Vanna Bonta

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. - Xavier Becerra

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas B Macaulay

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the minds and spirit. - David Jeremiah

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. - A.W. Tozer

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant