John Quotes

A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.

Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.

What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

Physician, heal thyself. Teacher, teach yourself.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.

I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom."

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become...appropri ately small.

The church is in the hope business.

If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!

And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.

the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.

We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

Leanness of body and soul may go together.