John Mason Brown Quotes

"She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life."
-John Mason Brown in Education quotes.

"You had a change two years ago in the chief executive, so you had a change at the top in terms of direction. He is a careful man but favors expansion."
-John Mason Brown

"It's really too dangerous to have people in the sea with the whales."
-John Mason Brown

"The wise man has his foibles, as well as the fool. But the difference between them is, that the foibles of the one are known to himself and concealed from the world; and the foibles of the other are known to the world and concealed from himself."
-John Mason Brown

"How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!"
-John Mason Brown

"The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir."
-John Mason Brown

"A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember."
-John Mason Brown in Communication quotes.

"He stood for what he believed."
-John Mason Brown

"We have reached a lot of families who were made homeless by the earthquake. But there are still enormous numbers of people that will require warm bedding and protection from the fierce winter weather if we're to avert another humanitarian crisis."
-John Mason Brown

"We've got wet sheets and blankets over them and we're pouring water over those to keep the animals wet and cool."
-John Mason Brown

"They like to put their toe on the bridge before they put their foot on the bridge."
-John Mason Brown

"Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own."
-John Mason Brown

"The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action."
-John Mason Brown

"When the cost curve comes down and the standards stabilize, the third generation of DVD-RAM is probably going to become dominant."
-John Mason Brown

"Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe."
-John Mason Brown

"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
-John Mason Brown

"America is a land where men govern, but women rule."
-John Mason Brown