John Mason Brown Quotes

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes ... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.

You were born an original, don't die a copy

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.