There is probably nothing wrong with art for arts sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. – Allen Tate
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. Its just a weakness that we human beings have for control – we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. – Dave Davies
To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound – Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley