John Paul Jones Famous Quotes
I have not yet begun to fight
John Paul Jones Quotations
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Isocrates
"Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right."
Donald Culross Peattie
It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.
Bronwyn Davies
"I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around living becomes the act of giving."
Beverly Sills
"Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals."
Vaclav Havel
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword"
Oscar Wilde
Follow the grain in your own wood.
Howard Thurman
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord RitchieCalder