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Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
-- John Masefield

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

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

Mae West: A plumber's idea of cleopatra.

-- W. C. Fields

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