Benvenuto Quotes

#1. In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful.

Christine Benvenuto

#2. I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.

Benvenuto Cellini

#3. Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

Benvenuto Cellini

#4. When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

Brene Brown

#5. When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

Benvenuto Cellini

#6. Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Benvenuto Cellini

#7. Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.

Benvenuto Cellini

#8. All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

Benvenuto Cellini

#9. Humility is the light of the understanding.

John Bunyan

#10. I used to work at a health food store. I got fired for drinking straight Bosco on the job.

Steven Wright

#11. The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.

Benvenuto Cellini

#12. My cruel fate hath warr'd with me in vain
Life, glory, worth, and all unmeasur'd skill
Beauty and grace, themselves in me fulfill
That many I surpass, and to the best attain.

Benvenuto Cellini

#13. One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

Benvenuto Cellini

#14. Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.

Benvenuto Cellini

#15. There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

Benvenuto Cellini

#16. There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

#17. A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

Benvenuto Cellini

#18. I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

Benvenuto Cellini

#19. In a few minutes nobody will know what I did. Everything will be perfect again. Except for my life.
[Oscar Banks]

Pam Bachorz