John Quotes

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.

Saint abroad and a devil at home.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize so fragile so easy to kill. Don't forget that all of you who don't have them.

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

There is no death! the stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore.

The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it.

It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.

We shall keep our horizon perfectly absolutely crystallinely open ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.

It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?

Chaucer I confess is a rough diamond and must be polished e'er he shines.

I can always tell what kind of a time I'm having at a party by the look on my wife's face.

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure without him live no life.

"I'm sorry that I spell'd the word I hate to go above you Because" - the brown eyes lower fell - "Because you see I love you!"

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

The American Medical Association operating from a platform of negative vigilance presents no solutions but busily fights each change and then loudly supports it against the next proposal.

She has such a nice sense of rumor.

The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

He that is down need fear no fall.

Making money is fun but it's pointless if you don't use the power it brings.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds not stones are the true monuments of the great.

To give a man full knowledge of true morality I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment and the hope of reward.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

The universe is not hostile nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a window opening into heaven a mirror reflecting the Creator.

For Art may err but Nature cannot miss.

Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. ... Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.

If a man bites a dog that is news.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.

The night is dark and I am far from home.