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