World's Oldest Menorah

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

History repeats itself; historians repeat one another. - Rupert Brooke

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

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

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. - Lawrence Durrell

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. - Martin H. Fischer

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

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

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

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

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

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

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

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

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles

Peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions, and make new beginnings. - George W. Bush