John Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!
-- John Smith

#Cooking #Sweetheart #Aim
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.
-- John Smith

#Regret #Athlete #Sacrifice
The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.
-- John Smith

#Attitude #Wrestling #Mind
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.
-- John Smith

#Atoms #Mutation #Generations
The feeling is that the end game is in play for Iraq and we saw this yesterday, but the reality is that there are still concerns about economic growth and that will cap any market rally. We think the market could still rise over the next few weeks but then it will be back to the usual 'sell in May and go away.' This is not the beginning of a bull market.
-- John Smith

#Reality #Thinking #Games
The settled will of the Scottish people.
-- John Smith

#People #Scottish
The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.
-- John Smith

#Men #Dollar Bills #Dollars
Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.
-- John Smith

#Communication #Communism
Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.
-- John Smith

#Spiritual #Garden #Hunting
The Best way to help the world is to help someone!
-- John Smith

#World #Way #Helping
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
-- John Smith

#Mystical #Awe #Creatures
To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.
-- John Smith

#Spiritual #Book #Soul
Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.
-- John Smith

#Yield #Waiting #Mind
He who does not work, will not eat
-- John Smith

#Doe
Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.
-- John Smith

#Stupid #Men #Mind
The opportunity to serve our countryâ€”that is all we ask.
-- John Smith

#Country #Opportunity
The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.
-- John Smith

#Men #Thinking #Way
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.
-- John Smith

#Men #Law #Honest
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
-- John Smith

#Vagrants #Geography
History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.
-- John Smith

#Memories
Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.
-- John Smith

#Men #Hands #Land

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