John Sterling Quotes & Sayings

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. — John Sterling

I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful. — John Sterling

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble. — John Sterling

Compliments are only lies in court clothes. — John Sterling

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools. — John Sterling

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,
whither it flows back again. — John Sterling

Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation
the realization of an idea by an act of the will. — John Sterling

You just cant predict baseball — John Sterling

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. — John Sterling

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. — John Sterling

Commerce has made all winds her mistress. — John Sterling

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. — John Sterling

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. — John Sterling

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage. — John Sterling

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. — John Sterling

Wisdom's Pearl doth often dwell
Closed in Fancy's rainbow shell — John Sterling

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it. — John Sterling

Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright
With joy the spirit moves and burns;
So up to thee! O Fount of Light!
Our light returns. — John Sterling

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist. — John Sterling

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. — John Sterling

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living. — John Sterling

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. — John Sterling

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. — John Sterling

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,
for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,
truth is an ideal whole. — John Sterling

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves. — John Sterling

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. — John Sterling

Man is a substance clad in shadows. — John Sterling

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies. — John Sterling

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. — John Sterling

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom. — John Sterling

One dupe is as impossible as one twin. — John Sterling

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion. — John Sterling