The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
H. L. Mencken

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Ambrose Bierce

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
Gloria Steinem

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
Mao Tse-Tung

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Eric Hoffer

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
Julia Child

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
Susan Sontag

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
Susan Sontag

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope