In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
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JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
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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.
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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.
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JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
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JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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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