Renaissance Quotes

Renaissance Quote of the day

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.

Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.Winston Churchill

We've never heardAbout a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have livedIn history can't measure upIn bravery against the Maid.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Whose little boy are you?

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

Start small.Start now.Start everything.And don’t bother to finish any of it.

And be grateful that you’re a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what’s between her ears.

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

In the darkness, fear my light.

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.