Quotations

"1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We never repent for having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak. If very angry, count one hundred."

— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the United States, born April 13, 1743

"I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change."

— Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author, born 1946

"Love which cries out, and wants the world to understand, is love that holds itself in doubt. For love is quiet, and love is kind."

— Elizabeth Jennings, English poet, born 1926

"Time does not heal. It makes a half-stiched scar that can be broken, and again you feel grief as total as in its first hour."

— Elizabeth Jennings, English poet, born 1926

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth... for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

— Jesus of Nazareth

"I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life."

— Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet, born 1881

"I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around – horizons of land and of seas –everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive."

— Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet, born 1881

"Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said,
‘A man-child is conceived.’
Let that day be darkness!
May God above not seek it,
nor light shine upon it."

— (Job 3:3–4)

"In a world full of noise, find your own unique melody and share it with the world."

— Sona Jobarteh, Gambian multi-instrumentalist, born 1983

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."

— Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Inc, born 1955

"Do you really want to sell sugar water, or do you want to come with me and change the world?""

— Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Inc, born 1955

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me."

— Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Inc, born 1955

"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

— Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Inc, born 1955

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

— Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Inc, born 1955