John Quotes

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

Such joy ambition finds.

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Forget thyself to marble.

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

Feed the troops on victory.

It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.