V.I. Arnold Quotes

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

Life’s not a one-shot special. It’s a friggin’ on-going series. Live it!

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

At moments we are all artists.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

What is easily the most dangerous spot cats choose for sleeping? Beneath our feet-sprawled out in hallways or in doorways, tails predictably extended just to be stepped on.

You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.

Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.

Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.

After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.

Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.

The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.

Don't be ashamed to play safe.

I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.

I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

When I was growing up, they had just found radio.