To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
JOHN MORTIMER I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitiv...
JOHN MORTIMER All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
JOHN MORTIMER The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
JOHN MORTIMER There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
JOHN MORTIMER I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an...
JOHN MORTIMER Attack the medical evidence. Remember the jury's full of rheumatism and arthritis and shocking gastr...
JOHN MORTIMER The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
JOHN MORTIMER No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.
JOHN MORTIMER The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are co...
JOHN MORTIMER Children can spot pomposity, insincerity and self-regard a mile off and are the best possible antido...
JOHN MORTIMER Champagne socialist
JOHN MORTIMER The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
JOHN MORTIMER When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckl...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER 'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love...
MORTIMER ADLER I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and e...
EMILY MORTIMER For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as...
MORTIMER ADLER A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
MORTIMER COLLINS There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide...
MORTIMER CAPLAN Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
MORTIMER CAPLAN There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; ...
MORTIMER COLLINS Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which th...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients ...
MORTIMER ADLER It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involv...
MORTIMER ADLER Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Love without conversation is impossible.
MORTIMER ADLER We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We ar...
MORTIMER ADLER The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession o...
MORTIMER ADLER Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
MORTIMER ADLER We just have to keep doing what we're doing. We're really playing well right now. We have to keep it...
ANDREA MORTIMER We definitely play well together. We're good friends off the court, too.
ANDREA MORTIMER Sometimes it changes your mentality a little, but I try not to think about it. I just still try to p...
ANDREA MORTIMER It's surprising. I really wasn't expecting it. It's cool that Bethany and I both made it. It was a g...
ANDREA MORTIMER When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be cons...
MORTIMER ADLER We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but...
MORTIMER ADLER Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the o...
MORTIMER ADLER An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that m...
MORTIMER ADLER Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
MORTIMER ADLER Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
MORTIMER ADLER It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the fi...
EMILY MORTIMER I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to ...
EMILY MORTIMER Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
MORTIMER ADLER I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of o...
EMILY MORTIMER These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things oc...
MORTIMER ADLER The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we live...
MORTIMER ADLER A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
MORTIMER COLLINS Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his...
MORTIMER COLLINS Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity
MORTIMER ADLER I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.
EMILY MORTIMER Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do no...
MORTIMER ADLER I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
MORTIMER ADLER I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligibl...
MORTIMER ADLER I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life wh...
EMILY MORTIMER In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop in...
MORTIMER ADLER Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why the...
MORTIMER ADLER In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man...
MORTIMER ADLER Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself
MORTIMER ADLER O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wis...
MORTIMER COLLINS There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.
MORTIMER CAPLIN Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
MORTIMER ADLER Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
MORTIMER ADLER The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we cont...
MORTIMER ADLER Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not ap...
MORTIMER ADLER There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than...
MORTIMER ADLER Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also.
MORTIMER ADLER One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith w...
MORTIMER ADLER After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild de...
MORTIMER ADLER Office life taught me to be tolerant, lazy and a good gossip.
BOB MORTIMER Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Vic, have you farted?
(Vic: No).
What, never?
BOB MORTIMER I thought it was a neat thing they did. We had a small remembrance here at school on Friday. In smal...
JERRY MORTIMER We love even when our love is not requited.
MORTIMER ADLER You have a tough crowd to please. If you arrive with something that doesn't piss anybody off, then y...
RICHARD MORTIMER As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries ...
IAN MORTIMER The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was al...
EMILY MORTIMER Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
MORTIMER ADLER Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretendi...
EMILY MORTIMER Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
MORTIMER ADLER Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - y...
EMILY MORTIMER One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself,...
MORTIMER ADLER I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, mo...
EMILY MORTIMER We must have given them eight points on second chance shots.
JERRY MORTIMER Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
MORTIMER ADLER Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
MORTIMER ADLER It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
EMILY MORTIMER Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, wi...
MORTIMER ADLER The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than...
MORTIMER ADLER Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
MORTIMER ADLER In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how man...
MORTIMER ADLER If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that ...
MORTIMER ADLER Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
MORTIMER ADLER Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or ...
MORTIMER ADLER I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I thin...
EMILY MORTIMER Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
EMILY MORTIMER I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
EMILY MORTIMER I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that...
EMILY MORTIMER I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more...
EMILY MORTIMER To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaning...
EMILY MORTIMER 51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad...
EMILY MORTIMER I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live ...
EMILY MORTIMER I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a c...
EMILY MORTIMER Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that...
EMILY MORTIMER I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
EMILY MORTIMER Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcup...
EMILY MORTIMER I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy...
EMILY MORTIMER My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they b...
EMILY MORTIMER This strategy has a lot of teeth.
JEFF MORTIMER If you share too much, the world will copy you.
JEFF MORTIMER People are after simplicity now. They learned over the past five years or so that investing isn't as...
JEFF MORTIMER The surprise of the quarter was really the strength of small-cap market when most pundits were sayin...
JEFF MORTIMER Schwab Hedged Equity has a core belief: There is an upward drift to the stock market.
JEFF MORTIMER I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do
RAYMOND MORTIMER Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 Sin is not only manife...
MORTIMER J. ADLER In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
MORTIMER J. ADLER Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
MORTIMER J. ADLER Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we cont...
MORTIMER J. ADLER In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily li...
MORTIMER J. ADLER True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
MORTIMER J. ADLER Today convenience is the success factor of just about every type of product and service that is show...
CHARLES G. MORTIMER The creeping notion that additives are badditives.
CHARLES G. MORTIMER Mathematics is one of the major modern mysteries. Perhaps it is the leading one, occupying a place i...
MORTIMER J. ADLER The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thin...
MORTIMER J. ADLER In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]
1. Homer – Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3....
MORTIMER J. ADLER ... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, f...
MORTIMER J. ADLER If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' te...
MORTIMER J. ADLER ....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read be...
MORTIMER J. ADLER There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER [The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexua...
DE ROBIGNE MORTIMER BENNETT One reason why fiction is a human necessity is that it satisfies many unconscious as well as conscio...
MORTIMER J. ADLER AND CHARLES VAN DOREN My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE