Saint John Mill

Famous quotes containing the words saint, john and/or mill:

    “There’s so much saint in the worst of them,
    And so much devil in the best of them,
    That a woman who’s married to one of them,
    Has nothing to learn of the rest of them.”
    —Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

    “Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
    Communicated monthly, sit and stare
    At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
    Where a young man lands hatless from the air.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)