John Armstrong Quotes

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.

Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

We need to be free if we are to love.

You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.

When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong.

Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

You can't help people that don't want to be helped.