John Mason Brown Quotes
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~ John Mason Brown Quote
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
Among the Round Tablers [at the Algonquin Hotel],Sherwood stood out like a grandfather's clock. The tick of his talk was measured, his words seeming to be spaced by minutes, but when he chimed he struck gaily.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
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.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own
~ John Mason Brown Quote
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.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
~ John Mason Brown Quote
