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While skepticism is healthy, cynicism, real cynicism, is toxic.
-- John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmh4RdIwswE)

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

"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)

"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")

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 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

Fungus is actually alive. Be afraid.

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

I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me 'sir.'
-- Joan Rivers

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

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
-- Ivern Ball

The great enemy of truth is often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
-- John F. Kennedy

Live long enough to be a problem to your kids.

"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

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987

"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author."
-- S. C. Johnson

"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
-- Clive Barker