Fortune Quote #483

General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge,
comprehending great store in a little room. -- John Locke

Fortune Quote #482

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-- John Lennon

Fortune Quote #481

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. -- John Keats

Fortune Quote #480

A fact is not a truth until you love it. -- John Keats

Fortune Quote #479

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated
into a better language. -- John Donne

Fortune Quote #478

When I got to this bit, I lay down on the floor and waved my arms and legs
in the air and giggled. -- John Conway

Fortune Quote #477

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for
anyone. -- John Ciardi

Fortune Quote #476

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the
blame and a little less than his share of the credit. -- John C.
Maxwell

Fortune Quote #475

When honor comes to you be ready to take it; but reach not to seize it
before it is near. -- John Boyle O'Reilly

Fortune Quote #474

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others. -- John Andrew Holmes

Fortune Quote #473

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you
going. -- Jim Ryun

Fortune Quote #472

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to
work a day in your life.' -- Jim Fox

Fortune Quote #471

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receieveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. --
Jesus Christ (Matthew 7:7-8)

Fortune Quote #470

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but
considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? -- Jesus Christ
(Matthew 7:3)

Fortune Quote #469

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for
it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not
that thy whole body should be cast into hell. -- Jesus Christ
(Matthew 5:29)

Fortune Quote #468

And everyone that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or
father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake,
shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. --
Jesus Christ (Matthew 9:29)

Fortune Quote #467

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. -- Jessamyn West

Fortune Quote #466

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his
neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold
mine. -- Jeremy Taylor

Fortune Quote #465

Things are only impossible until they're not. -- Jean-Luc Picard

Fortune Quote #464

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have
been more specific. -- Jane Wagner

Fortune Quote #463

All men in power ought to be distrusted. -- James Madison

Fortune Quote #462

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to
go. -- James Duffecy

Fortune Quote #461

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right
keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- J.S. Bach

Fortune Quote #460

Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that
are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while
things that are uncomfortable palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a
good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway. -- J.R.R. Tolkein

Fortune Quote #459

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are
malevolently well informed about the United States. -- J. Bartlett
Brebner

Fortune Quote #458

Time travel stories are too much fun for them to be eliminated merely out
of mundane considerations of impracticability, or even
impossibility. -- Isaac Asimov

Fortune Quote #457

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
-- Isaac Asimov

Fortune Quote #456

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true. -- Irving Caesar

Fortune Quote #455

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is
alive? -- Irv Kupcinet

Fortune Quote #454

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi

Fortune Quote #453

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take
the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition
there. -- Indira Gandhi