Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stuart Mill

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

John Stuart Mill

If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

John Sheridan

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.

John Shelton Reed

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

John Ratzenberger

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

John Perry

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

John Piper

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

Martin Luther

The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.

Martin Luther

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.