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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
-- John Donne
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
-- John Keats
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.
-- John Simon
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood
When in doubt, mumble.
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
-- John Ciardi
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- John Gilmore
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."
-- John Galsworthy
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
"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."
-- John Updike
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
-- Don Marquis
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
-- Lyndon B Johnson
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
-- John Keats
While skepticism is healthy, cynicism, real cynicism, is toxic.
-- John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmh4RdIwswE)
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
-- John Cleese
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
-- John Gardner
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
-- John Adams
"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."
-- John Updike
Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
-- John Masefield
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.
-- John Woods
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Drive in no traffic and leave the turn signal on, it doesn't make any difference"
-- John Glenn (on why space would be a good place for seniors to live)
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
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
-- Don Herold
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
-- Hiram Johnson (U.S. Senate, 1917)
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
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