Famous quotes containing the words dutch, literature, renaissance, golden and/or age:
“Too nice is neighbors fool.”
—Common Dutch saying, trans by Johanna C. Prins.
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. Its a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but its the togetherness of modern technology.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planets year is completed, it will be found to be central.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of mans adjustment to itthe speed of his acceptance.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)