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You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.
-- John Woods

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood

I love you enough to nauseate several poets.
-- Sheridyn Woodward

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
-- John Keats

I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
-- Woody Allen

Manners are one of the truly lost causes.
-- John Simon

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
-- Woody Allen

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
-- Woody Allen

All good work is done in defiance of management.
-- Bob Woodward

Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
-- Woody Allen

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
-- Woody Allen

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

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
-- Woody Allen (Without Feathers, 1976)

"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."
-- Woody Allen

"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")

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen ("Without Feathers")

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
-- John Keats

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen

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

"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

It wasn't lies. It was just bullshit, that's all.
-- Elwood Blues

"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

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

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

What do you mean, "If a woodchuck could chuck wood"? What's the point in calling it a "woodchuck" if it can't ?
-- David Gunter

"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

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
-- Heywood Broun

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
-- Samuel Johnson

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

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
-- Samuel 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

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
-- Henry Van Dyke

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
-- Lyndon B Johnson

Jack Benny played Mendelssohn last night. Mendelssohn lost.

"If houses were built the way software is built,
the first woodpecker would bring down civilization."

"...everyone else here is likely as stressed as you are, though much more competent and cynical."

-- Chris Johnson (a.s.r)

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.
-- Virginia Woolf