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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.-- John Keats
The value of the Constitution depends on the good will of government itself. If the Supreme Court rules that the Bill of Rights should not interfere with the important business of government (which they have done on at least two occasions), then the Constitution is meaningless.-- John Kormylo
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-- John Keats
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.-- John Donne
"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
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."-- John Ciardi
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
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
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
"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
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
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
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 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
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
"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author."-- S. C. Johnson
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
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.-- Samuel Johnson
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."-- Samuel Johnson
On emulating hormones and long-range neurotransmitters:
"If your job is delivering packages and all the packages are very small and your boss doesn't care who you give them to as long as it's on the correct continent and you have until the next ice age to get the work done, then you don't have a very difficult profession. I see no reason why simulating that anachronism would present the slightest difficulty."-- John K. Clark
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.-- Lyndon B Johnson
"...everyone else here is likely as stressed as you are, though much more competent and cynical."
-- Chris Johnson (a.s.r)