B.S. Johnson Quotes
We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.
We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was
It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.
Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
