It is sort of remarkable to me how much grief can well up when a pet dies, until one remembers that they are in fact people, who just happen not to be human.


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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD
When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER
Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER
Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN
The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER
He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE
Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON
I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON