John Jewel Quotes

#1. If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

John Jewel

#2. Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

James Russell Lowell

#3. The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

John Jewel

#4. Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

John Milton

#5. Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.

John Betjeman

#6. My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely ... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

John F. Kennedy

#8. When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

Shaquille O'Neal

#9. Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

Jeff Koons

#10. And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.

John Buchan

#11. Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.

Dave Morris

#12. Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

Gautama Buddha

#13. There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.
[It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

Francesco Guicciardini

#14. To maintain a fault known is a double fault.

John Jewel

#15. Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.

Ken Goldberg

#16. The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.

John Alfred Langford

#17. The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

John Jewel

#18. Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

John Jewel

#19. We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

Andy Taylor

#20. I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.

Gavin Hood

#21. But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.

John Jewel

#22. But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

John Jewel

#23. In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

John Jewel

#24. The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

John Jewel

#25. A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage. What's needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury.

Lance Morrow

#26. Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

John Jewel

#27. The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.

John Jewel

#28. May all your letters be received with an abundance of love.

Beth Wiseman

#29. Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

John Galsworthy

#30. A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

Judith Martin

#31. When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

John Weitz

#32. Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

John Jewel

#33. As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

John Jewel

#34. It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning. Pablo

John Steinbeck

#35. We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)

Kristina Riggle

#36. Each day's a gift of Life divine a precious jewel that's yours and mine!

John McLeod

#37. Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb