#ian

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#cause #greatest #politician #render #serviceable

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #business #caught #certainly #company

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. ↗

— Marc Bolan

#insensitive #mellow #musicians #rock #rock musicians

A man's character is his guardian divinity. ↗

— Heraclitus

#divinity #guardian #his #man

Great liars are also great magicians. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#great #liars #magicians

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#first #gave #historian #history #man

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#clothing #design #furniture #milanese #say

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island. ↗

— Lactantius

#concerning #crete #enumerated #gods #having

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus. ↗

— Lactantius

#appear #athenians #charge #committed #favour

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#guess #i #just #pianist #rather