Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Authors by Name: 'J':

Andrew Jackson (9)

One man with courage makes a majority.

Holbrook Jackson (4)

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Helen Hunt Jackson (6)

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Mahalia Jackson (13)

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

Max Jacob (2)

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Harriet Ann Jacobs (3)

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Arne Jacobsen (4)

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

William James (40)

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Alice James (2)

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Henry James (10)

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Storm Jameson (2)

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Randall Jarrell (2)

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Alfred Jarry (3)

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

Robinson Jeffers (2)

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Thomas Jefferson (70)

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Gertrude Jekyll (3)

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

Jerome K. Jerome (7)

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Douglas William Jerrold (5)

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

George Jessel (2)

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

John Jewel (2)

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (5)

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

Pope John XXIII (9)

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Lyndon B. Johnson (24)

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Andrew Johnson (2)

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.

William Samuel Johnson (4)

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Samuel Johnson (63)

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

John Paul Jones (3)

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

E. Stanley Jones (5)

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

Ben Jonson (4)

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Janis Joplin (5)

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.

David Starr Jordan (2)

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

Barbara Jordan (6)

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Chief Joseph (17)

I know that my race must change.

Joseph Joubert (14)

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

James Joyce (11)

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Carl Jung (19)

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Thanksgiving November 28, 2024

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. 32 other quotes from William Blake

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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. 6 wisdom & wit from Franz Grillparzer

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For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. 2 quotes from Storm Jameson

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. 73 thoughts from Victor Hugo

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