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The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The
man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
 Jack Handley
I'm not sure I've even got the brains to be President.
 Jackson
Glenda
Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
 Jackson
Justice Robert H.
You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.
 Jackson
Justice Robert H.
There is a secret person undamaged within every individual.
 Jackson
Justice Robert H.
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce
love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
 Jackson Andrew
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
 Jagger
Mick
Some performers on television appear to be horrible people, but when
you finally get to know them in person, they turn out to be even worse.
 James
Clive
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely
the most important.
 James
William
There is an old time toast which is golden for its beauty.
"When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend."
 James
William
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and
long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his
pain and his aloneness without regret?
 James Agate
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles
as if she laid an asteroid.
 Jane Wagner
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion.
Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed
and color, but also on ability.
 Jarry
Alfred
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
 Jean Giraudoux
You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
 Jefferson
Thomas
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
 Jefferson
Thomas
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
 Jefferson
Thomas
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
 Jefferson
Thomas
... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those
who wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent,
and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious
and otherwise, to put shackles upon sl Jefferson
Thomas
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses.
 Jefferson
Thomas
... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce
Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing
I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody
gets handed a name like "H.  Jefferson
Thomas
"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you
can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height
on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car
or a job? Do you ever Jefferson
Thomas
IV. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or
equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to
spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.
Such an object is inevitably price Jefferson
Thomas
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned
things is ample.
 Jefferson
Thomas
"We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole
country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas."
 Jerome
Jerome K.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would
say that it had merely been detected.
 Jerome
Jerome Klapka
You are never given a wish without also being given the
power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
 Jerome
Saint
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and
they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment
to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
 Jerrold
Douglas
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's
listening.
 Jessel
Sir George
Nothing succeeds like excess.
 Jessica Salmonson
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
 Jesus
"... all the modern inconveniences ..."
 Jim
Strange de
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is
in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot
stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that
is well; but also she will never  Jim
Strange de
Love the sea? I dote upon it  Jim
Strange de
If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the
separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience,
it might well prolong his life.
 Jim Starlin
I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all
these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these
kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and
I wasn't tempted to buy Jim Starlin
Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his
roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the
forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind
the railroad yards."
 Jim Steinman
When in doubt, do it. It's much easier to apologize than to get permission.
 Jimmy
Crazy
All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too,
provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe
to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the
cost of your house, beca Jitterbu Tom Robbins
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
 Joan Didion
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate
knowledge of its ugly side.
 Joan Didion
No television performance takes as much preparation as an off-the-cuff talk.
 Joel Chandler Harris
Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties
before we get to them.
 Joel M. Snyder
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible
with raisins in it.
 Joey
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
 Joh Lyndon B.
In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to
his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's
kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment
was expressed by Thomas K. Co John Ball
"I understand this is your first dead client," Sabian was saying. The
absurdity of the statement made me want to laugh but they don't call me
Deadpan Allie and lie.
 John Barrymore
I went to my mother and told her I intended to commence a different life. I
asked for and obtained her blessing and at once commenced the career of a
robber.
 John Denver
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of
husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism
are one, and that one is marxism.
 John Dewey
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
 John Donne
... A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he
was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
 John Gardner
"Listen to what I say, not what I mean. I mean ...."
 John Hunt British
"Remember, if it's being done correctly, here or abroad, it's ___not the U.S.
Army doing it!"
 John Kennedy
I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.
 John Kenneth Galbraith
Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great
crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs
and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and
resisting the current what each had John LeCarre
If Karl, instead of writing a lot about Capital, had made a lot of Capital,
it would have been much better.
 John Lightfoot
Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young.
 John The Dragon to Grendel in
Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
 Johnson
Dave
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling
their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the
other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to
the other side a consistency, fors Johnson
Dr.
Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
 Johnson
Dr.
Don't go to bed with no price on your head.
 Johnson
Lyndon Baines
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
 Johnson
S.
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
 Johnson
Samuel
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 Johnson
Samuel
What on earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way?
 Johnson
Samuel
True to our past we work with an inherited, observed, and accepted vision of
personal futility, and of the beauty of the world.
 Johnson
Samuel
We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm.
 Johnson
Samuel
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite."
 Johnson
Samuel
Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors.
 Johnson
Samuel
Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes.
Galileo: No, unhappy the land that _____needs heroes.
 Johnson
I'll never get off this planet.
 Johnson Lyndon
Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as
`all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled
with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.'
 Johnston
M. M.
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car
payments.
 Joke
The Killing
In the first place, God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made
school boards.
 Jones
Carolyn
That must be wonderful: I don't understand it at all.
 Jones
Franklin P.
When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.
 Jones
Franklin P.
The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim
hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when
the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.
 Jones
Franklin P.
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with
reality at any point."
 Jones
Franklin P.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my
teacher was in my class for five years.
 Jones
Thomas
Goals... Plans... they're fantasies, they're part of a dream world...
 Jones]
Chuck
It's not easy, being green.
 Joost van den Vondel
The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin.
 Joplin
Janis
I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation,
indivisible,
with liberty
and justice for all.
 Jorge Luis Borges
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God
is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
 Joseph Gallo
All is well that ends well.
 Joubert
Joseph
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
 Journal
Albuquerque
The future is a race between education and catastrophe.
 Journal
The Wall Street
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
 Joyce James
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.
 Joyce James
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
 Juan
Don
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining
and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
 Judith Martin
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
 Judy Garland
"There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
during the trial."
 Juliana Queen
He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow.
 Julius Caesar
It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how
to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.
 Jun Esquire
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor,
to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
 Jung
Carl
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less
than half of you half as well as you deserve.
 Jung C.G.
Lay off the muses, it's a very tough dollar.
 Juvenalis
Decimus Junius
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
 Juvenalis
Decimus Junius
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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
 Wittgenstein
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