World's Oldest Menorah

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

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

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

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

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

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. - Ronald Wright

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook. - Suzanne Fields

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt