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The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

-- Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

-- Holbrook Jackson

Two rights don't make a wrong, but three will get you back on the freeway.

-- James Wesley Jackson

All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.

-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Director

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

-- Clive James

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

-- P. D. James

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

-- William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

-- William James

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

-- William James

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

-- Thomas Jefferson

This is the fourth?

-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words

It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!

-- Douglas Jerold, 1858

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.

-- Billy Joel

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

-- Pope John Paul I

He who does not mind his belly will hardly will hardly mind anything else.

-- Samuel Johnson

I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.

-- Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

-- Samuel Johnson

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

-- Samuel Johnson

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

-- Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

-- Samuel Johnson

I have not yet begun to fight

-- John Paul Jones

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

-- Thomas Jones

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

-- Erica Jong

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

-- Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.

-- Joseph Joubert

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

-- James Joyce

Why don't you write books people can read?

-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James

Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

-- Pope Julius III

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

-- Carl Gustav Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

-- Carl Gustav Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

-- Carl Gustav Jung

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

-- Carl Gustav Jung