John Quotes

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Analog was perfected over 70 years, though. Digital will one day be fantastic. I'm sure of it.

On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

I love you Just coz Please forgive me I'm soz

We can reveal that John's 85 That's a well known fact Telling Kathy's age would be a breach Of the Official Secrets Act

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.

Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

God does nothing apart from prayer, but he does everything by it.

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.

[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find

Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.