Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
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JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) As busie as a Bee.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be
looking.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) You are in some brown study.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) A new broome sweepeth cleane.
JOHN LYLY LYLIE OR LYLLIE The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.
JOHN LYLY LYLIE OR LYLLIE The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
JOHN LYLY LYLIE OR LYLLIE I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes
overthrow the tallest Oke.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) What bird so sings, yet does so wail?
O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--
Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) None but the lark so shrill and clear;
Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,
The morn not ...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the appa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
THOMAS FULLER Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
DR. THOMAS FULLER Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
MENANDER Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. <...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
BIBLE Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18
1 JOHN 3:18 In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
WILLIAM PENN Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy,
For the ap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
BIBLE To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the b...
SUZY KASSEM Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
BIBLE, MATTHEW 6:3 Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
BIBLE Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying
BIBLE Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent,
Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
BIBLE Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The bee is domesticated but not tamed.
WILLIAM LONGGOOD Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.
GEORGE HERBERT Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
THOMAS BROWNE Let thy body be thy holy temple.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy life be thy gracious treasure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy pure act be thy prayer.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy holy temple be thy body.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
BIBLE Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy
right hand doeth:
That thine alms m...
BIBLE Grace thou thy House, and let not that grace thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
IEYASU TOKUGAWA Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
TOKUGAWA IEYASU Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.
GARY DAVIS Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
BIBLE In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despairest of suc...
AKHENATON Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I ...
BIBLE Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
BIBLE If hindrances obstruct the way,
Thy magnanimity display.
And let thy strength be seen:
B...
WILLIAM COWPER Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
HIPPOCRATES They're improved, but they're still coming at costly times. I think we cut them in half, but still, ...
MIKE SHERMAN Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to
utter any thing before God; for God...
BIBLE On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy moti...
BHAGAVAD GITA If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if th...
FRANCIS QUARLES Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
BIBLE I'm not afraid of bees....AH! BEE!!!
BLINK 182 What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
MARCUS AURELIUS O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky building...
JOHN KEATS I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, ... But let me say if some...
CHARLES SCHUMER Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
H. L. MENCKEN O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the flower; night and day I ...
GURU NANAK Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let thy Discontents be Secrets.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
BIBLE Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,
Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--
No...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, a...
THOMAS FULLER When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so ...
COMPTON GAGE Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
GEORGE HERBERT And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, be...
BIBLE How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie ...
ISAAC WATTS Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.
GEORGE HERBERT My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: / So shall they be li...
BIBLE Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, ...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with t...
BIBLE Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN As far as could ken thy chalky cliffs,
When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,
I stood u...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You are the ABC's of the morning sunshine - Amazingly Bright & Comely!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not ...
BIBLE He didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee li...
CHARLES DICKENS Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T...
CHARLES WESLEY Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let thy breath be, a grace of thanks.
LAILAH GFTY AKITA Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.
WILLIAM PENN Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
MARCUS AURELIUS Honey is sweet! but the bee stings
PROVERB I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play...
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JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) As busie as a Bee.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be
looking.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) You are in some brown study.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) A new broome sweepeth cleane.
JOHN LYLY LYLIE OR LYLLIE The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.
JOHN LYLY LYLIE OR LYLLIE The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
JOHN LYLY LYLIE OR LYLLIE I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes
overthrow the tallest Oke.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) What bird so sings, yet does so wail?
O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--
Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) None but the lark so shrill and clear;
Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,
The morn not ...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marria...
JOHN LYLY All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.
JOHN LYLY Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
JOHN LYLY Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
JOHN LYLY The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
JOHN LYLY Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
JOHN LYLY The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
JOHN LYLY A clear conscience is a sure card.
JOHN LYLY As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
JOHN LYLY Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
JOHN LYLY He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
JOHN LYLY It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon
JOHN LYLY Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.
JOHN LYLY A merry companion is as good as a wagon
JOHN LYLY We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
JOHN LYLY In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
JOHN LYLY It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.
JOHN LYLY Night hath a thousand eyes
JOHN LYLY There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire
JOHN LYLY The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted
JOHN LYLY The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel
JOHN LYLY A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
JOHN LYLY We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth
JOHN LYLY None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not w...
JOHN LYLY Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe
JOHN LYLY Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame
JOHN LYLY Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, ...
JOHN LYLY To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind
JOHN LYLY Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia ...
MANILIUS (MANLIUS OR MALLIUS) (MARCUS OR CAIUS) Of all the world's enjoyments
That ever valued were,
There's none of our employments
Wit...
THOMAS DURFEE (OR D'URFEY) The new definition of God - It has the root in Vedanta. The concentrated form of the whole human rac...
SRI JIBANKRISHNA OR DIAMOND She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad c...
PATRICK MAJOR DALLAS OR The Supreme Cult never leaves a man. It never gets destroyed or evaporated. It is God’s grace and ...
SRI JIBANKRISHNA OR DIAMOND Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."
CHARLES JEFFERYS (JEFFREYS OR JEFFRIES) And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the
saying is.
NICHOLAS GRIMOALD (GRIMALD OR GRIMALDE) The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.
[Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]
CARDINAL CARLO CARAFA (OR CARAFFA) He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
[Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]
GABRIEL MEURIER MEURIR OR MURIER He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
[Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]
GABRIEL MEURIER (MEURIR OR MURIER) NEIN
HITLER LUDWIG OR GILBERT IDK Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
...
LADY ELIZABETH CAREW (CARY OR CAREY) The fairest action of our human life
Is scorning to revenge an injury;
For who forgives withou...
LADY ELIZABETH CAREW (CARY OR CAREY) And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the
stag, and afterwards, when he has been...
HENRY DE BRACTON (BRATTON OR BRETTON) Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external s...
COUNT LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI OR TOLSTOY Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is imper...
COUNT LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI OR TOLSTOY Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one
safety.
[Lat., Quo res cunque cad...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) They are able because they think they are able.
[Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
[Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cogno...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to
do?
[Lat., Quid non mortalia pect...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
[Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non ple...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) He follows his father with unequal steps.
[Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt
from the blue.)
[Lat., Non alia...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of
iron.
[Lat., Linguae centum sunt,...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report
of evil things than which nothing...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small
town.
[Lat., Fama volat parvam s...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him
when he saw that it would ruin an...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they
run.
[Lat., Quadrupedumque putrem c...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events.
[Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.
[Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, in...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood.
[Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite va...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.
[Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus ...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
[Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL A mind conscious of its own rectitude.
[Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence,
his belly short, his back full, and...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) All of which misery I saw, part of which I was.
[Lat., Quaeque ipse misserrima vidi, et quorum par...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease.
[Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) The medicine increases the disease.
[Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) To pile Ossa upon Pelion.
[Lat., Imponere Pelio Ossam.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) My voice stuck in my throat.
[Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain
Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain,
O...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift,
increases with travel and gains strengt...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) 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 He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE 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