76 Quotes by John Smith

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

The settled will of the Scottish people.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy...