B.J. Penn Quotes

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

Be rather bountiful, than expensive.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."

In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.

BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic.If, after severalApplications, you do not findRelief, consult your family physician

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men)

But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

One of the Secrets in Life is to Make Stepping Stones out of Stumbling Blocks.

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.

It was always scary, Charlie replied, but that was why you did it, right? If it was safe... it wouldn’t be fun.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.

When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal... and then continue with your writing.

When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal in your journal... and then continue with your writing.

Being a writer is not just about typing. It’s also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.

When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.

And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability.

Has any non-dipshit man ever used the word "ladies" not followed by the word "room"?

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.

In any conflict, the crazier party generally wins.

You are dehydrated, " I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

Tradition does not mean a dead town

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see - it is rather a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.

A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.

If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

The smaller the drink the clearer the head.

It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any.