John Quotes

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world.

rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

Branding is the art of becoming knowable, likable and trustable.

Listening is the new prospecting.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

God without Christ is no God.

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.