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Giving help doesn't mean dashing in and doing what seems like a good idea to you. It means doing what the other person wants. If what the person wants is for you leave them alone, it means doing that.-- John Fisher
If you insist that you know what's right for a person, you are precious close to saying that their feelings aren't real, just because you don't understand them. The next stop after sentimentality is cruelty.-- John Fisher
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.-- John Keats
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."-- John Gilmore
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.-- John Donne
The great enemy of truth is often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.-- John F. Kennedy
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."-- John Galsworthy
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."-- John Ciardi
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.-- John Stuart Mill
Quality without creativity is pompous;
Creativity without quality is infantile.-- John Cerruti
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.-- John LeCarre
"If Today Was a Fish, I'd Throw It Back In." (Song Title)
"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."-- John Updike
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
A man without God is like a fish without a skateboard.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-- John Keats
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.-- John Gardner
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.-- John Cleese
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."-- John Adams
Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.-- John Masefield
"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."-- John Updike
You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.-- John Woods
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.-- John Burroughs
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.-- John Berger
Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand gay guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"-- John Stewart
Cats are famously umoved by others,
each cat its own king of its own land.
Socialists we be called by others,
a bad word I've heard when uttered by men.-- Maggie Mae Fish
Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
Eloquence is logic on fire.