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

-- Chris Johnson (a.s.r)

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
-- Hiram Johnson (U.S. Senate, 1917)

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

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

Non sequitur is Latin for "w'uh huh?"
-- Chris Isaak

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

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson

If stupidity was a crime, honey, you'd get a life sentence.
-- Chris Stephenson

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

Wreckless Driving -- You'd think that would be a good thing.
-- Chris Sampson

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

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

"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
-- Laurence Johnston Peter

Government of the people
By a corrupt subset of the people
For the people who can afford the corrupt subset of the people.

-- Chris Newport

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- John Gilmore

"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."
-- Agatha Christie

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
-- John Donne

May your future be limited only by your dreams.
-- Christa McAuliffe

"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
-- Christopher Lasch

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

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."
-- John Galsworthy

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
-- John Adams

When I see a jogger I swerve my car towards him and pretend I passed out while I was driving. I miss him at the last minute but I bet it adds some excitement to his workout.
-- Chris Smith

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

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
-- John Ciardi

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

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
-- Christopher Morley

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
-- John Gall ("Systemantics")

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

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

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

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

"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."
-- John Updike

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy