John Mason Brown Famous Quotes
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown Quotations
"A politician is like quicksilver if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it."
Austin O Malley
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."
Fawn M Brodie
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
Lois McMaster Bujold
"She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation."
Willa Cather
"And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind."
Thomas a Kempis
"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Hollywood actors and actress are not better than you -- They just act like they are.
Eric Pio