A Quote by Marthe Bibesco

collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

Marthe Bibesco

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Afterwards Amusing Collections Collectors Corpse Fathers Inherit Like Making Only Passion Prints Satisfied Sons Sport Without

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Marthe Bibesco
French - Writer
January 28, 1886 - November 28, 1973

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's sense of being good enough. He may believe he is making his son tough, as he was made tough by a similarly contending father, but he is only making his child desperate and mean like himself. Fathers must let their sons (and daughters) have their victories.

Frank Pittman

Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange families batten on their sons, lying on top of them like giant parasites. They not only prey upon their strength, but gnaw away at the sons' right to exist. The fathers punish, but they are at the same time the accusers. The sin of which they accuse their sons seems to be a kind of original sin.

Walter Benjamin

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

H. L. Mencken

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect... It is the only sport that incorporates meal breaks. It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players - more if they are moderately restless.

Bill Bryson

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

Croesus

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

Cal Thomas

Prints can absolutely be investment pieces. I've seen prints from my collections from five years ago on the street now. It's totally possible. If the colors don't age and if the fabric is beautiful, then of course people should wear it year after year.

Thakoon Panichgul

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Herodotus

A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.

John Sexton

Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

Kate McKinnon

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude

Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that attend Mass and who afterwards peacefully take to the streets calling for the release of their husbands, sons and fathers who are political prisoners.