John Quotes

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

Happy man, happy dole.

A short horse is soone currid.

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.

Might have gone further and have fared worse.

A day after the faire.

Time trieth troth in every doubt.

He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.

Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.

There is no fool to the old fool.

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

A good wife maketh a good husband.

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.

It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

Nought venture nought have.

A cat may looke on a King.

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled.

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.

The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

For me, all drama is based on conflict.

Fear shuts off possibilities. The first thing that kicks in when you're reacting with fear... This is what I love about Roosevelt's quote, "There's nothing to fear but fear itself."

I do love genres, but I love finding new ways into the genre, or making that world fresh again.

I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

Reality, while generally probable, is not always interesting.

The fact is I'm very self-similar.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.

Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

I am not an Internet superstar.