Form Quotes - page 2

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. (Charles Caleb Colton)
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. View quote
Luis Buñuel
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. View quote
Peter Ustinov
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. View quote
Alvar Aalto
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. View quote
Karl Marx
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart. View quote
Aeschylus
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. View quote
Hermann Broch
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Poverty is the worst form of violence. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. View quote
Graham Greene
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable. View quote
Richard Wagner
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. (Friedrich Schlegel)
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. View quote
Montesquieu
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. View quote
Edmund Burke