John Leonard Famous Quotes
The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.
John Leonard Quotations
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear."
Alan Coren
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
Thomas Hardy
"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."
Mary Webb
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.
Rod Hughes
"The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a gun."
Patrick Henry
"Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower."
Jean Paul Richter
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Wystan Hugh Auden
"To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred De Musset