Famous quotes containing the words folk, museums, selected, list, living and/or europe:
“the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye—
So priketh hem nature in hir corages—
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)
“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)
“We go to Europe to be Americanized.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)