John Quotes

But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.

Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.

A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by. Its nature, as is ours, is to expand itself no matter if anyone ever loves us back.

Semper Dowland semper dolens.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

Speak with your own voice and be as unique as you possibly can.

I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.

I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.

I don't think God's through with me.

There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.

We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.

I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.

Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.