John Quotes

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

Rest is by no means a waste of time.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?

The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

Football is in my blood. For me the bubbles will never fade and die

In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

My reputation is a media creation.

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

I've never said I'm a communist.

I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.

I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.

Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

Love knoweth no laws.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

Children and fools speak true.

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.