Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Donne

And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

John Donne

. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

John Donne

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

John Donne

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

John Donne

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

John Eldredge

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

John Eldredge

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

John Ortberg

The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.

John Ortberg

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

John O'Donohue

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

John Mortimer

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

John Milton

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

John Milton

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

John Milton

Luck is the residue of design.

John Milton

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

John Denham

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

John Desmond Bernal

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

John Desmond Bernal

Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

John Dewey

Always make the other person feel important.

John Dewey

To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.

John Calipari

You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

John Calvin

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

John Berryman

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

John Berger

One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

Joel Fuhrman

Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live.

Joel Fuhrman

Life is a highway - the enjoyment you get depends on the lane you choose.

Joel Fuhrman

Permanent results only come from permanent changes in lifestyle and diet style. You don't get permanently well unless you permanently change the way you live.

Joe Greene

Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you....

Joe Hill

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

Joan Lunden

We can all learn to live jubilantly. We can all learn to alter our attitudes so that we can better realize our dreams.

Joan of Arc

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone. But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying – even more terrible than dying young.

George Ade

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.