John Mason Brown Quotes

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
- John Mason Brown
(Related: Happiness, Purpose)

"The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action."
- John Mason Brown
(Related: Action, Indolence, Man, Opinion, Trials)

"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes."
- John Mason Brown
(Related: Eyes, Television)

"How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!"
- John Mason Brown
(Related: Washington)

"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
(Related: Home, Cause, Heaven)

"The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better."
- John Mason Brown

"I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting."
- John Mason Brown
(Related: Time, Waiting)

"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
- John Mason Brown
(Related: Play)

"America is a land where men govern, but women rule."
- John Mason Brown
(Related: Men, Women, America, Land)

"A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember."
- John Mason Brown

"So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies."
- John Mason Brown
(Related: Memories, Today, Tomorrow)