John Quotes

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

All is well that ends well.

I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.

To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.

As every thread of gold is valuable so is every moment of time.

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.

Time is nothing absolute its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Time is an available instrument for reaching the eternal.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.

Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

I mix them with my brains sir.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.

He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply.

Where the mind is past hope the heart is past shame.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.

The more haste the less speed.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.

Most of us can as we choose make of this world either a palace or a prison.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.

But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.

One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.

Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.

Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.

Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.

A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.

What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.

You can't be pessimistic because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic you'd go out of business.

The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.