Browne Quotes & Sayings

People are afraid to die, and even more afraid to live. — Sylvia Browne

I don't understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I'm as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else. — Thom Browne

I act every day of my life. — Thom Browne

I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening — Jackson Browne

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured. — Jackson Browne

You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army. — Des Browne

I'm going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. — Jackson Browne

People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one — Jackson Browne

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo. — Thomas Browne

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' — Harry Browne

It isn't possible to give government just a little control over the economy and our lives. Once we cede that power to government, it uses the power to take more from us. That's why every year the government controls more of our lives. — Harry Browne

Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient. — Joy Browne

Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do. — Anthony Browne

Death is the Graduation of the Soul — Sylvia Browne

No one ever talks about their feelings anyway
Without dressing them in dreams and laughter
I guess it's just too painful otherwise — Jackson Browne

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy. — Jackson Browne

I make not therefore my head a grave, but a treasure, of knowledge; I intend no Monopoly, but a community, in learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves. — Thomas Browne

There is in those workes of nature, which seeme to puzle reason, something Divine, and that hath more in it then the eye of a common spectator doth discover. — Thomas Browne

Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life. — Anthony Browne

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. — Thomas Browne

There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the care, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. Whatever is harmonically composed delights in harmony; which makes me much distrust the symmetry of those heads which declaime against all Church musicke... Even that vulgar and Taverne Musicke, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in mee a deepe fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first Composer; there is something in it of Divinity more than the eare discovers. It is an Hieroglyphicall and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and Creatures of God, such a melody to the eare, as the whole world well understood, would afford the understanding. In briefe it is a sensible fit of that Harmony, which intellectually sounds in the eares of God. — Thomas Browne

I was asked to design the tuxedo for Mr. Peanut. They're rebranding him. That was probably the most interesting request. I didn't spend a long time considering it. — Thom Browne

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you. — Harry Browne

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday. — Jackson Browne

I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack. — Anthony Browne

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? — Jackson Browne

From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the "global warming" of the 1990s, environmental alarms almost always turn out to be false. Few non-political scientists fear ozone loss, global warming, or acid rain. These are just issues that some people hope to use to reorder the lives of the rest of us. — Harry Browne

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody. — Joy Browne

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. — Thomas Browne

There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring. — William Browne

He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader. — Howard Browne

My uniform: grey suit, white shirt, grey tie and tie bar, grey cardigan and black wingtips. — Thom Browne

While I think men in general should not fuss over how they look, I do feel as though they should make more an effort to find a way to look good in their own individual, but natural way. I think it's a shame that it's become acceptable to wear jeans and a T-shirt to any place and function. — Thom Browne

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? — Frank Scully

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. — Thomas Browne

True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. — Thomas Browne

Stress can make people say things they don't mean, though. That's why you have to relax. — Hester Browne

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you. — Sylvia Browne

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated. — Jackson Browne

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. — Thomas Browne

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. — Mary Browne

The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed. — Thomas Browne

Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions. — Harry Browne

I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s. — Thom Browne

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. — Thomas Browne

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God. — Thomas Browne

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things. — Jackson Browne

All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven. — Thomas Browne

With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but 'tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it. — Thomas Browne

When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive. — Harry Browne

He told me yesterday that weddings should be individual celebrations of a couple's relationship, ideally with just the bride and groom and a humanist minister. Everything else is merely social pressure to eat tiny cakes. — Hester Browne

Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do. — Anthony Browne

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. — Thomas Browne

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want. — Harry Browne

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. — Jackson Browne

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen. — Thomas Browne

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. — Charles Farrar Browne

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. — Thomas Browne

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel. — Sylvia Browne

All you have to do is to make it your business to find out what people want ~ instead of assuming it, instead of telling them.
The one rule that sums up the job to be done ~ the one formula that is fully in harmony with the real world ~ the secret of success is:
Find out what people want and help them get it! — Harry Browne

Light is but the shadow of God. — Thomas Browne

Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think not that Morality is Ambulatory; that Vices in one age are not Vices in another; or that Virtues, which are under the everlasting Seal of right Reason, may be Stamped by Opinion. And therefore though vicious times invert the opinion of things, and set up a new Ethicks against Virtue, yet hold thou unto old Morality; and rather than follow a multitude to do evil, stand like Pompey's pillar conspicuous by thyself, and single in Example of Virtue; since no Deluge of Vice is like to be so general but more than eight will escape; Eye well those Heroes who have held their Heads above Water, who have touched Pitch, and have not been defiled, and in the common Contagion have remained uncorrupted. — Thomas Browne

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on — Jackson Browne

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. — Jackson Browne

I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty. — Thomas Browne

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy. — Jackson Browne

Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens. — Harry Browne

One person devotes his life to helping the poor. Another one lies and steals. Still another person tries to create better products and services for which he hopes to be paid handsomely. One woman devotes herself to her husband and children. Another seeks a career as a singer. In every case, the basic motivation has been the same. Each person is doing what he believes will bring him happiness. What varies between them is the means each has chosen to gain his happiness. — Harry Browne

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done. — Jackson Browne

An idea that is confident always looks masculine. — Thom Browne

Your actions toward others are your bank deposit. It's easy to be good to nice people, but try to be caring to everyone. It is a test. — Sylvia Browne

Likewise, she will know that if I start watching reality TV, quoting Dr. Phil, riding roller coasters, and seem to have forsaken bacon in favor of anything soy - it's time to Get the Pillow. That's what - well, I can't tell you who but she's a nurse - says they all say when they've got a particularly cantankerous patient on their wing. — Jill Conner Browne

The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion. — Harry Browne

In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this? — Harry Browne

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. — Harry Browne

[The photos] all bore the hallmarks of very expensive lighting and artistry, but Godric was projecting variations on the same emotion in every single one of them. Acute awkwardness.
Admittedly he'd really gotten "awkward" nailed--even in black Armani, leaning against a glass wall, he looked like a teenager waiting outside an STD clinic. — Hester Browne

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example. — Thomas Browne

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience. — Thomas Browne

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans. — Jackson Browne

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it. — Jackson Browne

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs. — Jackson Browne

I want you to start a brand-new section in your notebooks and call it Mr. Browne's Precepts." He kept talking as we did what he was telling us to do. "Put today's date at the top of the first page. And from now on, at the beginning of every month, I'm going to write a new Mr. Browne precept on the chalkboard and you're going to write it down in your notebook. Then we're going to discuss that precept and what it means. And at the end of the month, you're going to write an essay about it, about what it means to you. So by the end of the year, you'll all have your own list of precepts to take away with you. — R.J. Palacio

To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told me there was a reall truth therein: for first wee are a rude masse, and in the ranke of creatures, which only are, and have a dull kinde of being not yet priviledged with life, or preferred to sense or reason; next we live the life of plants, the life of animals, the life of men, and at last the life of spirits, running on in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existence, which comprehend the creatures not onely of world, but of the Universe. — Thomas Browne

When in doubt, do the obvious. — Joy Browne

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. — Thomas Browne

Doctor, my eyes cannot see the sky. Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry? — Jackson Browne

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. — Thomas Browne

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them. — Charles Farrar Browne

Critasism is just a way of saying i'm jelous of your talents — Rayvon L. Browne

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? — Thomas Browne

To embrace all things means also that one rids oneself of any concept of separation; male and female, self and other, life and death. — Brian Browne Walker

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with. — Sylvia Browne

Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor. — Jackson Browne

In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets
I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was complete
from TIGHTROPE - Stone Roses — Matt Squire

Yeah, I'm very smart. — Sylvia Browne

Those who wish that success would fall into their laps will wish forever. But those who look at the world as it is, who recognize that the consumer is king, who take the trouble to find out what the consumer wants ~ these men make fortunes. People will always reward them ~ because people will not want to be without their services. — Harry Browne

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power. — Harry Browne

I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They're the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing. — Thom Browne

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. — Harry Browne

I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us — Jackson Browne