John Quotes

When two men live together they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other. Two men alone are constantly on the verge of fighting, and they know it.

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.

I have clung To nothing, lov’d a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream!

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?---"On death

Touch has a memory.

Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free?

Memory of the knife will be gone when the flesh is gone.

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine—Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile madeThe tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade

You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go.

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

... but she was also bewilderingly lonely... Abra had lost her gift for being alone.

He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling my

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present.

Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?

No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if it lead to your destruction. That is your fault and your destiny.

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous.

Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

‎"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

The complexities of life can never be untangled by man

Love is a better way.

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad or a stimulant

I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..

Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

Life is knowledge, livin it is Succes!

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.

A government of laws, and not of men

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.

It ain't kin we? It's will we?

He's got a can up there, ' Richard said.

He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.