Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci - In Art
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci - In Mortality
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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard - In Friendship
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Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci - In Nature
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen - In Poetry
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
- Leonard Bernstein - In Politics
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
- John Leonard - In Sports
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Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.
- Leonard Brandwein - In Technology
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