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
Topics: Difficulties, Reality, Adversity
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Happiness, Aspirations, Goals
Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Politics
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Charm
I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
—John Mason Brown
A critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Criticism
What a man is is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Man
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
Topics: Danger
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
Topics: Revolutionaries, Revolutions, Revolution
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: America
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
Topics: Friends and Friendship
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Conversation, Communication
So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: The Present
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Time Management, Time
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