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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 98dedb0 | The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal's paradise. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 22f2de0 | We truly know only what we have taught ourselves. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 6b5ef9a | Insight makes argument ridiculous. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 011c0f7 | A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8ce2e04 | What we acquire with joy, we possess with indifference. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 1e892f9 | The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| ad3d6fd | When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 516053d | When the crowd acclaims its favorites it applauds itself. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 44ae977 | Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 38f96b2 | Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| bd86808 | In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| ceff950 | One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 047c279 | They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 2fa9c5d | It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8994caa | The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| ee27bed | If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own? | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 215d5b8 | If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 3948170 | They who think they know all, learn nothing. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| bc670c9 | Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| e99064d | Wouldst thou bestow some precious gift upon thy fellows, make thyself a noble man. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 97cf7a7 | We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| eca7192 | What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 1a14bc7 | Soap prevented more deaths than penicillin. That's technology, not science. | John Lanchester | ||
| 5960f1c | I fell in love with my wife on Lake Como | John Legend | ||
| db5d07e | Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid. | John Leguizamo | ||
| 5eb40d2 | He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating. | John Leguizamo | ||
| 6e52e6b | No -- we need money first. | John Lennon | ||
| a793bbf | If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry. | John Lennon | ||
| ce931b9 | I really thought that love would save us all. | John Lennon | ||
| 4d19c4a | I've sold my soul to the devil. | John Lennon | ||
| 3b6f27e | Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. | John Lennon | ||
| 9c052c1 | Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing. | John Lennon | ||
| 7e7cf68 | If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. | John Lennon | ||
| 1c121ac | You have to be! (Laughs) You might get shot! | John Lennon | ||
| 27b405a | Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. | John Lennon | ||
| 9bc4bd3 | If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people. | John Lennon | ||
| 4f0eac6 | Everything is as important as everything else. | John Lennon | ||
| 6625269 | I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker. | John Lennon | ||
| 2aa9b1e | Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable. | John Lennon | ||
| 7569246 | There are too many ironies in the fire! | John Leonard (critic) | ||
| aa3226f | Everybody is forever saying that the essay is dead. This is always said in essays. | John Leonard (critic) | ||
| d84166e | Granted, religion is wishful thinking, but there is no other kind of thinking. | John Leonard (critic) | ||
| 0c23732 | One advantage of remorse is that it sets the stage for consolation. | John Leonard (critic) | ||
| 3b16f21 | A bohemian imitates the manners of the class below him. | John Leonard (critic) |