John Cleese quote: "I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit."

He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', a...
JOHN CLEESE

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the ...
JOHN CLEESE

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes natu...
JOHN CLEESE

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to ...
JOHN CLEESE

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people...
JOHN CLEESE

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
JOHN CLEESE

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do importa...
JOHN CLEESE

I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of thing...
JOHN CLEESE

It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves....
JOHN CLEESE

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
JOHN CLEESE

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized reall...
JOHN CLEESE

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
JOHN CLEESE

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
JOHN CLEESE

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
JOHN CLEESE

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
JOHN CLEESE

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
JOHN CLEESE

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like a...
JOHN CLEESE

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's...
JOHN CLEESE

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no compet...
JOHN CLEESE

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and prais...
JOHN CLEESE

Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their ...
JOHN CLEESE

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
JOHN CLEESE

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in nort...
JOHN CLEESE

At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,
JOHN CLEESE

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of u...
JOHN CLEESE

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if...
JOHN CLEESE

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my ...
JOHN CLEESE

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which ...
JOHN CLEESE

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.
JOHN CLEESE

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip
JOHN CLEESE

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten ...
JOHN CLEESE

I never watch the re-runs,
JOHN CLEESE

We stay in contact vaguely because there are often little things to discuss, but I don't think we've...
JOHN CLEESE

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging ...
JOHN CLEESE

I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd s...
JOHN CLEESE

is rooted in his gluttony.
JOHN CLEESE

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like, ... Some wines that some experts think are absolut...
JOHN CLEESE

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
JOHN CLEESE

To know how good you are at something requires the same skills as it does to be good at that thing.
JOHN CLEESE

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
JOHN CLEESE

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
JOHN CLEESE

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely d...
JOHN CLEESE

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
JOHN CLEESE

You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.
JOHN CLEESE

The problem was that I carried around with me a tendency to feel that other people’s respect for m...
JOHN CLEESE

He who laughs most, learns best
JOHN CLEESE

The Meaning of Life
JOHN CLEESE

There's so many good people producing wine now, ... It's just amazing. There's so much on the shelve...
JOHN CLEESE

It's a catchy tune. Hopefully you'll be hearing it on a football terrace near you, very, very soon.
JOHN CLEESE

Still trying to run a hotel and getting it wrong,
JOHN CLEESE

It is absolutely impossible to get even a majority of us together in a room, and I'm not joking. It ...
JOHN CLEESE

I had not seen it for a long time and was suddenly embarrassed to find that I was laughing more than...
JOHN CLEESE

The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and ...
JOHN CLEESE

There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what...
JOHN CLEESE

It's exactly the same territory, and it's a complete coincidence.
JOHN CLEESE

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absol...
JOHN CLEESE

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent s...
JOHN CLEESE

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as s...
JOHN CLEESE

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious...
JOHN CLEESE

I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hi...
JOHN CLEESE

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
JOHN CLEESE

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
JOHN CLEESE

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
JOHN CLEESE

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up ...
JOHN CLEESE

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all...
JOHN CLEESE

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER

Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER

Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON

I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN

You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON

There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS

Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE

I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd...
JOHN BOLTON

You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo...
JOHN BOLTON

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
JOHN BOLTON

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

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I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

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