John Barleycorn Jack Quotes & Sayings

John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality. — Jack London

When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in. — Phyllis Diller

John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion. He is the easy way out. And he is lying all the time. He offers false strength to the body, false elevation to the spirit, making things seem what they are not and vastly fairer than what they are. — Jack London

I am a realist. I expect miracles. — Wayne Dyer

Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore. — Millard Kaufman

Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away. — John Chamberlain

If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it ... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision. — Diana Abu-Jaber