John Quotes

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.

In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.

Your words must match what you do. In so many words, you need to show sincerity with your words.

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.

Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.

To shoot at crows is powder flung away.

Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little thighs, And steer his distant journey through the skies.

In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.

Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?

The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.

In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

If with me you'd fondly stray Over the hills and far away.

My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.

No author ever spar'd a brother.

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

It isn't. The Book of Abraham is not central to the restored gospel of Christ.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.