B.J. Penn Quotes

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

Experience is a safe guide.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about

My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.

I'll get mobbed by literally 40 school girls. It's like being a full fledged star, and that's surreal.

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

Every poker player is smarter than me.

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

For whatever you live is life.

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.

I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

I am a Justin Timberlake fan.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

Never chide with anger, but instruction.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.