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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c178f8e | In general, any differences between two groups will always be greatly accentuated at the extremes. | John Allen Paulos | ||
| f83eac9 | Two dangers threaten the world--order and disorder. | John Allen Paulos | ||
| 6dd9cad | Rigid distinctions between the deep and the shallow are generally themselves quite superficial. | John Allen Paulos | ||
| d8983a4 | Always be smart; seldom be certain. | John Allen Paulos | ||
| 2ed8021 | Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. | John Allen Paulos | ||
| 40a477f | The whole weight of science is the prima facie evidence against a miracle having occurred. | John Allen Paulos | ||
| 0833dfd | It's always healthy to recognize facts. | John Allen Paulos | ||
| b627422 | All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. | John Arbuthnot | ||
| e340586 | 'Tis not for mortals always to be blest. | John Armstrong (poet) | ||
| 0be1b01 | These two guys in the front yard--Are they here to help? | John Ashbery | ||
| cdae3c3 | The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved. | John Ashcroft | ||
| 6e40833 | Allegedly) Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly. | John Ashcroft | ||
| 1283d2d | It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well. | John Ashcroft | ||
| a7c0ea7 | How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe. | John Aubrey | ||
| 3a4736e | Sciatica: he cured it, by boyling his buttock. | John Aubrey | ||
| b32f792 | He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations. | John Aubrey | ||
| e10307b | Politics is history in the present tense. | John Avlon | ||
| c095b7d | The far-right and far-left can be equally insane. | John Avlon | ||
| 624da15 | Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. | John Avlon | ||
| acea406 | Extremes are ultimately their own side's worst enemy. | John Avlon | ||
| 133e9e7 | Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1. | John Avlon | ||
| 67e5e09 | Demagogues always do well in economic downturns. | John Avlon | ||
| 7cc324d | Us and against them is the opposite of our national motto, e pluribus unum: Out of many, one. | John Avlon | ||
| 63bf710 | The independence of our nation is inseparable from our interdependence as a people. | John Avlon | ||
| a7a6b77 | If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me? | John Banville | ||
| 7a921a1 | The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave. | John Banville | ||
| 3f706a6 | I suspect that significant first encounters only take on their aura of significance in retrospect. | John Banville | ||
| 0e38973 | Man is only lovable in the multitude, and at a good distance. | John Banville | ||
| ae4233a | Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories. | John Banville | ||
| 2de74cf | Ambiguity is the essence of Irish writing, I think. | John Banville | ||
| 920f656 | We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. | John Banville | ||
| 14e2c6f | Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the department of trivia. | John Banville | ||
| c29668b | Oh, I'm terribly ignorant of Czech literature. It's disgraceful really. | John Banville | ||
| 2ba3f65 | I'm doing my best to not be too rude about it, but oh my God that Czech food... | John Banville | ||
| efccd14 | There is something slightly sinister about Prague, just as there is about Lyon and Turin. | John Banville | ||
| fbc3fbb | The world is a dark place, and I find it endlessly funny. | John Banville | ||
| 5208aaf | I'm a little older now and I think I've lightened up a bit as I'm getting older. | John Banville | ||
| bed074a | And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin. | John Brown (essayist) | ||
| 94d2419 | I like to hide in Ireland, but I like to think of myself as an internal exile. | John Banville | ||
| 33ad881 | One must try to keep a sensible perspective and not take oneself too seriously. | John Banville | ||
| 9892c0e | Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic. | John Banville | ||
| 845c169 | I like to dress conservatively because then the outrageous things you say are even more outrageous. | John Banville | ||
| b9d70c9 | Luff is off sa mekill mycht,That it all paynys makis lych. | John Barbour | ||
| 0d8acf9 | Thai eyt it with full gud willBot appetyt. | John Barbour |