Top 37 Quotes About Medici
#1. The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.
Ludwig Von Mises
#3. Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and Lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues.
John Keegan
#4. Love is a treacherous emotion. You will fare better without it. We Medici always have.
C.W. Gortner
#5. Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved
Michelangelo
#6. So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
Bayard Taylor
#7. Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen.
[Lat., Quod medicorum est
Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]
Horace
#8. I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.
Lisa Gansky
#9. Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.
Sarah Dunant
#10. Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.
Stephen Kinzer
#11. The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers.
Perry Chen
#12. I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#13. I have been intrigued by Catherine de Medici and the legends surrounding her for a long time.
Susan Carroll
#14. They have a grand mausoleum in Florence, which they built to bury our Lord and Saviour and the Medici family in.
Mark Twain
#16. Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#17. I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.
Mary Pope Osborne
#18. Well, get the coffer out," said Tobie roundly. "You find his clean clothes and I'll cut his hair round his cap and wash his ears out. Then, when we get to the Palazzo Medici, you imitate his voice and I'll sit him on my knee and move his arms up and down. Where is the problem?
Dorothy Dunnett
#19. As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
Mario Batali
#20. Most of my thinking is done at night.
Estelle
#21. I make not therefore my head a grave, but a treasure, of knowledge; I intend no Monopoly, but a community, in learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
Thomas Browne
#22. What I have dreamed in an hour is worth more than what you have done in four.
Lorenzo De' Medici
#23. People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.
Gilbert Gottfried
#24. I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans
Tommy Douglas
#25. ? People are still ill from the after-effects of these priestly quack-cures! For example, think of certain diets (avoidance of meat), of fasting, sexual abstinence
Anonymous
#26. If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?
John C. Maxwell
#28. It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.
Jack Gilbert
#30. For many things were shown,
Recorded and written down.
But what is God to do,
When His Word you do renounce?
Kari L. Greenaway
#31. I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.
Lorenzo De' Medici
#32. When you are in harmony with love and positivity, everything you want will be pushed in your direction and given to you.
Tisha Marie Payton, MHR
#33. What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.
Isaac Hanson
#34. My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, "Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do."
Reese Witherspoon
#35. The truth is, not one of is innocent. We all have sins to confess.
C.W. Gortner
#36. Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.
Blake Shelton
#37. Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis.
Henri Murger
