Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by John Smith

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.

You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.

He who does not work, will not eat

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.

Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

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.

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.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

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.

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

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.

The Best way to help the world is to help someone!

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.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.

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

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

The settled will of the Scottish people.