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Quotes from John Mason Brown

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
No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.
~ John Mason Brown
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
~ John Mason Brown
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
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
~ John Mason Brown
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
~ John Mason Brown
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
The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
~ John Mason Brown
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
~ John Mason Brown
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
~ John Mason Brown
So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.
~ John Mason Brown
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
~ John Mason Brown
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
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
~ John Mason Brown
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
~ John Mason Brown
Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
~ John Mason Brown
You were born an original, don't die a copy
~ John Mason Brown
Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
~ John Mason Brown
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
~ John Mason Brown
Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
~ John Mason Brown
Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.
~ John Mason Brown
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
~ John Mason Brown
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
~ John Mason Brown
To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
~ John Mason Brown