| "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds." »Aesop |
| "There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts." »Christine Lavin |
| "Juanita Ooh that boy's a fine piece of work all right. He's a fine piece of ass though, too." »Billy Madison |
| "The arts are the servant wisdom its master." »Seneca |
| "Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe |
| "There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato |
| "All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life." »M. C. Richards |
| "Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings." »Vicki Baum |
| "No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." »George Washington |
| "By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows." »Ovid |
| "Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides." »Felix G. Rohatyn |
| "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." »Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
| "America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White |
| "Charlie You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called F-You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground." »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan |
| "In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat." »Auguste Renoir |
| "He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
| "Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two." »Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire |
| "Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine." »Honore' de Balzac |
| "It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love." »Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire |
| "Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day." »French Proverb |
| "Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself." »Henry Havelock Ellis |
| "Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences." »Freeman John Dyson |
| "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." »Pete Seeger |
| "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." »Robert Benchley |
| "There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them." »Peretz Smolenskin |
| "Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it." »Woody Allen |
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