John Quotes

Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

God never made his work for man to mend.

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain.

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.