john lennon quotes about war

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. ~Author Unknown



They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ~Mahatma Gandhi



Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks



Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ~Harold Bloom



The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ~Edsger Dijkstra



Elephants and grandchildren never forget. ~Andy Rooney



Skipping turns your legs into built-in pogo sticks. ~Jessi Lane Adams



In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton



In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. ~Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)



No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. ~Charles Dudley Warner



Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people (expensive girlfriends, for instance) that it's often hard to tell the people and the cats apart. ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners



The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ~David Storey



Pun: the humorous use of words, playing on similarities in sound or differences in meaning. Example: "Beginning gardeners work by trowel and error."



Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. ~J.K. Rowling



The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ~Joan Didion



I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. ~Author Unknown



Truth breeds hatred. ~Bias of Priene, Maxims