Jonathan Swift

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
~ Jonathan Swift

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
~ Jonathan Swift

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
~ Jonathan Swift

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
~ Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
~ Jonathan Swift

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
~ Jonathan Swift

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
~ Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
~ Jonathan Swift

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
~ Jonathan Swift

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
~ Jonathan Swift

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
~ Jonathan Swift

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
~ Jonathan Swift

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
~ Jonathan Swift

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
~ Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
~ Jonathan Swift

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
~ Jonathan Swift

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
~ Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
~ Jonathan Swift

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
~ Jonathan Swift

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
~ Jonathan Swift

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
~ Jonathan Swift

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
~ Jonathan Swift

Books, the children of the brain.
~ Jonathan Swift
May you live every day of your life.
~ Jonathan Swift

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
~ Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
~ Jonathan Swift

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
~ Jonathan Swift

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
~ Jonathan Swift

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
~ Jonathan Swift

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
~ Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
~ Jonathan Swift

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
~ Jonathan Swift

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
~ Jonathan Swift

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
~ Jonathan Swift

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.
~ Jonathan Swift

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
~ Jonathan Swift

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
~ Jonathan Swift

Observation is an old man's memory.
~ Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
~ Jonathan Swift

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
~ Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
~ Jonathan Swift

Don't set your wit against a child.
~ Jonathan Swift

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
~ Jonathan Swift

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
~ Jonathan Swift

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
~ Jonathan Swift

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
~ Jonathan Swift

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
~ Jonathan Swift

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
~ Jonathan Swift

Every dog must have his day.
~ Jonathan Swift

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
~ Jonathan Swift

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
~ Jonathan Swift

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
~ Jonathan Swift

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
~ Jonathan Swift

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
~ Jonathan Swift

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
~ Jonathan Swift

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
~ Jonathan Swift

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
~ Jonathan Swift

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
~ Jonathan Swift

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
~ Jonathan Swift

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
~ Jonathan Swift

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
~ Jonathan Swift

May you live all the days of your life.
~ Jonathan Swift

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
~ Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
~ Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.
~ Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Jonathan Swift

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
~ Jonathan Swift

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
~ Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
~ Jonathan Swift

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
~ Jonathan Swift

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
~ Jonathan Swift

Johnny Isakson

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. 

~ Johnny Isakson

We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win. 

~ Johnny Isakson

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system. 

~ Johnny Isakson

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility. 

~ Johnny Isakson

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road. 

~ Johnny Isakson

Right now, the best thing we could do is set the 2008 budget caps as the new caps for the next budget year we go into, because that would reduce spending by $600 billion in the first year of appropriations after it was established. That's the way you have to do it -- with tough love. 

~ Johnny Isakson

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. 

~ Johnny Isakson

Well, I think as long as you've got men and women deployed in harm's way in Afghanistan, the last thing in the world is you shut down the support system for those men and women. So I would not want to do that. 

~ Johnny Isakson

The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do. 

~ Johnny Isakson

John Wayne

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
~ John Wayne

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
~ John Wayne

Get off your horse and drink your milk.
~ John Wayne

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
~ John Wayne

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
~ John Wayne

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
~ John Wayne

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
~ John Wayne

John Steinbeck

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
~ John Steinbeck

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
~ John Steinbeck

No one wants advice - only corroboration.
~ John Steinbeck

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
~ John Steinbeck

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
~ John Steinbeck

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
~ John Steinbeck

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
~ John Steinbeck

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
~ John Steinbeck

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
~ John Steinbeck

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
~ John Steinbeck

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
~ John Steinbeck

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
~ John Steinbeck

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
~ John Steinbeck

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
~ John Steinbeck

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
~ John Steinbeck

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
~ John Steinbeck

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
~ John Steinbeck

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
~ John Steinbeck

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
~ John Steinbeck

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
~ John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
~ John Steinbeck

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
~ John Steinbeck

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
~ John Steinbeck

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
~ John Steinbeck

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
~ John Steinbeck

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
~ John Steinbeck

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~ John Steinbeck

Time is the only critic without ambition.
~ John Steinbeck

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
~ John Steinbeck

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
~ John Steinbeck

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
~ John Steinbeck

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
~ John Steinbeck

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
~ John Steinbeck

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
~ John Steinbeck

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
~ John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
~ John Steinbeck

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
~ John Steinbeck

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
~ John Steinbeck

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. <
~ John Steinbeck

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
~ John Steinbeck

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
~ John Steinbeck

John F. Kennedy

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
~ John F. Kennedy

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
~ John F. Kennedy

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
~ John F. Kennedy

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
~ John F. Kennedy

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
~ John F. Kennedy

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
~ John F. Kennedy

A child miseducated is a child lost.
~ John F. Kennedy

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
~ John F. Kennedy

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
~ John F. Kennedy

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
~ John F. Kennedy

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~ John F. Kennedy

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
~ John F. Kennedy

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
~ John F. Kennedy

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
~ John F. Kennedy

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
~ John F. Kennedy

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
~ John F. Kennedy

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
~ John F. Kennedy

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
~ John F. Kennedy

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
~ John F. Kennedy

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
~ John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
~ John F. Kennedy

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
~ John F. Kennedy

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
~ John F. Kennedy

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
~ John F. Kennedy

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
~ John F. Kennedy

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
~ John F. Kennedy

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
~ John F. Kennedy

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
~ John F. Kennedy

If we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
~ John F. Kennedy

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
~ John F. Kennedy

John C. Maxwell

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
~

John C. Maxwell

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
~ John C. Maxwell

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
~ John C. Maxwell

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.
~ John C. Maxwell

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
~ John C. Maxwell

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
~ John C. Maxwell

Leadership is influence.
~ John C. Maxwell

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
~ John C. Maxwell

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
~ John C. Maxwell

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
~ John C. Maxwell

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
~ John C. Maxwell

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
~ John C. Maxwell

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
~ John C. Maxwell

If you're lying, you're lying.
~ John C. Maxwell

Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
~ John C. Maxwell

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
~ John C. Maxwell

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what. After you start doing the thing, that’s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.
~ John C. Maxwell

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
~ John C. Maxwell

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.
~ John C. Maxwell

You can’t let your problems be a problem.
~ John C. Maxwell

Your candle loses nothing when it lights another.
~ John C. Maxwell

To connect with their hearts, use your ears.
~ John C. Maxwell

One person with courage is a majority.
~ John C. Maxwell

If you believe you can, you can.
~ John C. Maxwell

If you won’t carry the ball, you can’t lead the team.
~ John C. Maxwell

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
~ John C. Maxwell

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person hears only what they understand.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A useless life is an early death.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age merely shows what children we remain.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All things are only transitory.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An unused life is an early death.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patriotism ruins history.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe