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Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. -- Sydney Smith
The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius. -- Richard Neutra
The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils. -- C.P. Cavafy
I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct. -- Samuel Alito
A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love. -- Andrea Bocelli
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. -- Mary Hunter Austin
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. -- A. E. Waite
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. -- Charles Hodge
Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be? -- William Shakespeare
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. -- Oscar Wilde
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable. -- Joseph Fletcher
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature. -- George Will

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