Famous quotes containing the words dutch, architecture, republics, golden and/or age:
“Too nice is neighbor’s fool.”
—Common Dutch saying, trans by Johanna C. Prins.
“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is, said Gargantua, as Plato said ... that republics will be happy when kings philosophize or philosophers reign.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
—Bernard Baruch (1870–1965)