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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is a classic American novel by John Steinbeck. It tells the saga of Tom Joad, his family and his friends, as they try to survive the Dust Bowl.

Quotes

 * Page numbers based on Penguin edition, 1992, ISBN 9780143039433

 * To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. The plows crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks. The last rains lifted the corn quickly, and scattered weed colonies and grass along the sides of the roads so that the gray country and the dark red country began to disappear under a green cover.
 * Chapter One
 * I gotta see them folks that’s gone out on the road. I got a feelin' I got to see them. They gonna need help no preachin' can give 'em. Hope of heaven when their lives ain’t lived? Holy Sperit when their own sperit is downcast an’ sad?
 * Preacher Casy, p. 55

 * Grampa walked up and slapped Tom on the chest, and his eyes grinned with affection and pride. "How are ya, Tommy?" "O.K.," said Tom. "How ya keepin' yaself?" "Full a piss an' vinegar," said Grampa.
 * p. 107

 * If a bank or a finance company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank — or the Company — needs — wants — insists — must have — as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them. These last would take no responsibility for the banks or the companies because they were men and slaves, while the  banks were machines and masters all at the same time. Some of the owner men were a little proud to be slaves to such cold and powerful masters.
 * Chapter 5

 * The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank  is  something  more  than  men,  I  tell  you.  It's  the  monster.  Men  made  it,  but  they can't control it.
 * Chapter 5

 * The driver sat in his iron seat and he was proud of the straight lines he did not will, proud of the tractor he did not own or love, proud of the power he could not control. And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.
 * Chapter 5

And the tenant pondered more. "But let a man get property he doesn't see, or can't take time to get his fingers in, or can't be there to walk on it—why, then the property is the man. He can't do what he wants, he can't think what he wants. The property is the man, stronger than he is. And he is small, not big. Only his possessions are big—and he's the servant of his property. That is so, too.
 * The tenant  pondered.  "Funny  thing  how  it  is.  If  a  man  owns  a  little  property,  that  property is him, it's part of him, and it's like  him.  If  he  owns  property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn't doing well, and feel fine when the rain falls on it, that property is him, and some way he's bigger because he owns it. Even if he isn't successful he's big with his property. That is so."
 * Chapter 5

 * To California or any place—every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day—the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it.
 * Chapter 9, pp. 91-92

 * Highway 66 is the main migrant road, 66 - the long concrete path acros the country, weaving gently up and down on the map, from the Mississippi to Bakersfield - over the red lands and the gray lands, twisting up into the mountains, crossing the Divide and down into the bright and terrible desert, and across the desert to the mountains again, and into the rich California valleys, '''66 is the path of a people  in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there. From all of these the people are in flight, and they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight.
 * Chapter 12

 * The western land, nervous under the beginning change. The Western States, nervous as horses before a thunder storm. The great owners, nervous, sensing a change, knowing nothing of the nature of the change. The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes. Results, not causes; results, not causes. The causes lie deep and simply — the causes are a hunger in a stomach, multiplied a million times; a hunger in a single soul, hunger for joy and some security, multiplied a million times; muscles and mind aching to grow, to work, to create, multiplied a million times. The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man. To build a wall, to build a house, a dam, and in the wall and house and dam to put something of Manself, and to Manself take back something of the wall, the house, the dam; to take hard muscles from the lifting, to take the clear lines and form from conceiving. For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. This you may say of man — when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. This you may say and know it and know it. This you may know when the bombs plummet out of the black planes on the market place, when prisoners are stuck like pigs, when the crushed bodies drain filthily in the dust. You may know it in this way. If the step were not being taken, if the stumbling-forward ache were not alive, the bombs would not fall, the throats would not be cut. Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live — for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died. And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live — for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken. And this you can know — fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
 * Chapter 14, opening paragraph, pp. 156-157

 * The land company — that's the bank when it has land — wants tractors, not families on the land. Is a tractor bad? Is the power that turns the long furrows wrong? If this tractor were ours it would be good — not mine, but ours. If our tractor turned the long furrows of our land, it would be good. Not my land, but ours. We could love that tractor then as we have loved this land when it was ours. But this tractor does two things — it turns the land and turns us off the land. There is little difference between this tractor and a tank. The people are driven, intimidated, hurt by both.
 * Chapter 14

 * This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".
 * Chapter 14, p. 152

 * Tom grinned. "It don’t take no nerve to do somepin when there ain’t nothin’ else you can do."
 * Chapter 18, p. 231

 * If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause  he  feels  awful  poor  inside  hisself,  and  if  he's  poor  in  hisself,  there  ain't  no  million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do'll make him feel rich.
 * Chapter 18

 * How can  you  frighten  a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him — he has known a fear beyond every other.
 * Chapter 19

 * Ever see a cock pheasant, stiff and beautiful, ever' feather drawed an' painted, an' even his eyes drawed in pretty? An' bang! You pick him up — bloody an' twisted, an' you spoiled somepin better'n you; an' eatin' him don't never make it up to you, 'cause you spoiled somepin in yaself, an' you can't never fix it up.
 * Chapter 23

 * "Well," said Casy, "for anybody else it was a mistake, but if you think it was a sin—then it's a sin. A fella builds his own sins right up from the groun'."
 * p. 235

 * And Ruthie whispered, "Tha's Granma, an' she's dead." Winfield nodded solemnly. "She ain't breathin' at all. She's awful dead."
 * p. 239

 * And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression.
 * p. 249

 * Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow. ...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
 * Chapter 25, pp.349 (Everbind book version- bottom of pg. 477)

 * If you're in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help—the only ones.
 * Ma Joad, p. 376

“No. I been thinkin’, long as I’m a outlaw anyways, maybe I could — Hell, I ain’t thought it out clear, Ma. Don’ worry me now. Don’ worry me.” They sat silent in the coal-black cave of vines. Ma said, “How’m I gonna know ’bout you? They might kill ya an’ I wouldn’ know. They might hurt ya. How’m I gonna know?” Tom laughed uneasily, “Well, maybe like Casy says, a fella ain’t got a soul of his own, but on’y a piece of a big one — an’ then —” “Then what, Tom?” “Then it don’ matter. Then '''I’ll be all aroun’ in the dark. I’ll be ever’where — wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there.''' If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’ — I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build — why, I’ll be there. See? God, I’m talkin’ like Casy. Comes of thinkin’ about him so much. Seems like I can see him sometimes.”
 * “You don’t aim to kill nobody, Tom?”
 * Tom Joad, and his mother, in Ch. 28, p. 419

 * Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
 * Tom Joad

Quotes about The Grapes of Wrath

 * When one thinks of California agriculture during the Depression, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath generally comes to mind. Steinbeck did not exaggerate. White and African American Dust Bowl migrants alongside Mexicanos and Filipinos endured great hardships.
 * Vicki L. Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

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Talk:Duke Nukem

Start adding quotes
This is meant to be a collection of every bloody quote from the games. To do so violates fair use.--DooMDrat 17:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Unless you are a lawyer or Federal Judge you cannot say that with any certainty.
 * What nonsense. See Copyrights. How the hell could the page feature even most (let alone all) of the stuff said, and still be fair use?--Drat 06:10, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Lame. None of these quotes are _ORIGINALLY_ from Duke Nukem, they are all borrowed from past campy movies and general pop culture, so quit already with the copyright worries. Listing quotes isn't a violation of copyright anyway. FYI the "shit down your neck" quote is from the 1983 Eddie Murphy movie "Trading Places", it was said by actor Paul Gleason as Clarence Beeks.

I beg to differ. Ginbot86 04:27, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

 * You have that right, but that doesn't mean you are right. Policy is policy.--DooMDrat 14:25, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

the line i got balls of steel was said by duke nukem not by the guy from gta ( as some have thought)

You're either a site for quotes or not, make up your damn mind.If you don't want every duke quote then don't bother with a fucking wiki. —This unsigned comment is by 195.226.159.147 (talk • contribs).
 * Just because it's a site for quotes doesn't mean that it has to have every quote. It doesn't negate the copyright issue.--Drat 11:00, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. I will be removing some. 76.101.72.59 22:49, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

12 fuck you

Do the games themselves violate "fair-use"?.. Seems about half of the quotes here are borrowed or adapted from other works. Don't think anyone would mind, either, it serves as a useful memento for fans. If they did mind, they'd be editing the page themselves, or something.

This is excessive.
Do we need every single line of his from the game? This is over the top.--DooMDrat 04:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Agree. We should maybe work out the most relevant ones --Hydrox 18:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I can see your point, the list is getting huge isn't it? Excessive?I don't think so.. mebbe what would be cool was actually dividing the quotes according to the game in which they're said.
 * Disagree. The more the better. Ginbot86 04:27, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Disagree. Indeed the game is made mostly of quotes, most of them are famous for my generation. There isn't a single line that I read and that I do not remember or that I do not use if I have occasion and people listening me normally get the quote, so they should be listed here for reference of those that, the game, did not played. Regards 213.140.15.160 16:54, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but copyright comes first. There are many cleanup efforts ongoing that aim to trim the everloving crap out various pages here, due to the copyright problem. The fact that there isn't exactly books worth of quotes in the Duke Nukem games is no excuse to list even half of them.--Drat 12:42, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

"No *insert* steals our chicks [...]
It says "Nobody steals our chicks... and lives", but i remember that it used to be "No alien bastard steals our chicks [...]". I edited it once, but someone put the first line back into it. -Armor Nick

Actually, no it's not. The alien b****** part is from the shootin' up my ride quote.

Quoting quotes?
Also, a lot of these quotes are actually from other sources (Evil Dead and other 80s horror/action flicks especially). I want to say that the "...and I'm all out of gum" line is from CHUD 2, but I don't want to see CHUD 2 again to confirm. Is there a way we could note the references? -Rick Flick

It was "They Live", not CHUD 2.

Nooooooo... That line is from Duke Nukem 3D. I played that game YEARS ago and I clearly remember it!!! At the start of the Hollywood Holocaust mission, duke nukem DOES say "it's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum....... " -- Faried (ZA)

 * Nooooo... That line is from They Live, a 1988 film, which predates both C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. (1989) and the Duke Nukem series (1991 and beyond). (Unless They Live borrowed it from something even earlier, that is.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:37, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

This line is orignally from They Live but Duke does pay homage to this one liner at the start of the Hollywood Holocaust mission.

It's not Hollywood Holocaust. It's Raw Meat. E3L1. - deThbaTe

Needs better organization.
There are too many quotes from other Duke Nukem games in the Duke Nukem 3d section. I moved all (I think all) the Manhattan Project ones, can someone familiar with the other games move the others?
 * There are too many quotes period. Pretty much every line is here. It needs to be cut down by at least half. See the tag at the top of this talk page.--DooMDrat 07:35, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I don't think we should cut it down...why have only half of those wonderful one-liners if we can have them all? Mebbe the right thing to do is to divide the page and create a different page for each Duke Nukem game:O dunno really..
 * No, in terms of fair use, there are way too many quotes from each work. If they were split to different articles, those would need to be trimmed. You can only have so much from each work.--DooMDrat 16:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Massive article trimming
I've deleted most of the "quotes" in this article, not only to avoid blatant copyright violation, but also because most of the lines in this game are utterly unoriginal and/or merely variations on common quotes and quotes borrowed from other famous works. There are no doubt many fansites that are not concerned with copyright laws and have no qualms about incorporating every single line, but the Wikimedia Foundation that operates (and pays for) this website does not permit entire transcriptions of any works, including electronic games. Wikiquote's purpose is to collect a modest set of notable quotes for each subject. Please be extremely selective in what you add here. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Totally agreed. While there have been some good additional edits, many of new editings made the article worse and back to the status before your trimming, I reverted it to the revision as of 17:24, 5 April 2007. There are many anons who may have paid no attention to this discussion and worriness, I'd even love to protect the article. --Aphaia 17:26, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta gum!
I think this is the most important one. Why isn't it there? --80.63.213.182 23:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It's his own favorite quote. Source. --80.63.213.182 23:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. I certainly find this to be one of the more humorous ones. It's now added. --Meinsla 20:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Quotes
There are many more of Duke's lines that are missing here. You can add them. I mean, not EVERY line, but some others that are, if not more, equally funny than the ones listed here.
 * Even 50% or 40% of the lines would be too much for fair use.--DooMDrat 13:16, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Anonymous Coward: From Duke Nukem 3D: Duke standing in front of a 'Duke Nukem pinball machine', and when you touch it, says 'Aint got time, to play with myself'. Hilarious.

Are some of these made up?
Ive played through the game a few times and dont recognize some of the 3D ones like Duketh Kicketh Ass or wahtever; nor the good cigar/badwoman one. im not removing them but are they actually from 3D or a diff game?

Quotes:

Eat shit and die...

I'll rip off your head and shit down your neck...

I got balls of steel...

Time too kick ass and chew bubblegum... and im all outta gum

Blow it out ya' ass
 * They are all from the game. "Time too kick ass and chew bubblegum... and im all outta gum" is a reference to They Live and it is the first thing that Duke says in the 3rd episode.

Permission for quotes
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User_talk:84.237.120.114 «I missed your message RE: Duke Nukem as I haven't been on Wikiquote for a while. The quotes are copyrighted and can only be used under Fair Use. Excess quotes would be a violation of copyright.--DooMDrat 12:14, 26 May 2007 (UTC)»
 * IMHO, you're trying to fight with air - there is many-manu-many users who add quotes anyway. Maybe it is not a bad idea make a official public request (with duplicate answer on the official site) to 3DRealms for permission to add every quotes from Duke Nukem 3D?.. I'll think you're all tried to delete "excess quotes". Guest —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.237.120.114 (talk • contribs) 20:32, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

about duke nukem forever quotation....
...it is from December 18th but we should mention what year it was. Because of the well-known foreverness of DN:F this information could act quite important.

What 'bout Duke Nukum 1?
The only quote i heard was "I'll Kick your butt and get home in time for oprah." and it said "T" For bad language?

2011 teaser quotes
Can somebody update the page?

"Why do they always take the hot ones?"

"I'd still hit it" <-- that one wins

"Rest In Pieces"

"What? Did You Think I Was Gone Forever?"

"Hail To The King,Baby" "Ill rip out your eyes and piss on your brain"

Manhattan Project
Hey guyz. Is there some original quotes, not from other parts of franchise?

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John Wesley

John Wesley (28 June 1703 – 2 March 1791) was a British cleric, theologian, and evangelist, who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.

1730s

 * I observed, "Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment." It is not only "the first and great" command, but all the commandments in one. "Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise," they are all comprised in this one word, love.
 * Wesley quoting his own sermon on "The Circumcision of the Heart" (1 January 1733) in the work A Plain Account Of Christian Perfection (Edition of 1777)

 * I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.
 * Journal (11 June 1739)

 * The distinguishing marks of a Methodist are not his opinions of any sort. His assenting to this or that scheme of Religion, his embracing any particular set of notions, his espousing the judgment of one man or of another, are all quite wide of the point. Whosoever therefore imagines, that a Methodist is a man of such or such an opinion, is grossly ignorant of the whole affair; he mistakes the truth totally. We believe indeed, that all Scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and herein we are distinguished from Jews, Turks, and Infidels. We believe the written word of God to be the only and sufficient rule, both of Christian faith and practice; and herein we are fundamentally distinguished from those of the Romish church. We believe Christ to be the eternal, supreme God; and herein we are distinguished from the Socinians and Arians. But as to all opinions which do not strike at the root of Christianity, we think and let think. So that whatsoever they are, whether right or wrong, they are no distinguishing marks of a; Methodist.
 * "The Character of a Methodist" (1739); in The Works of the Rev. John Wesley in Ten Volumes (1826), Volume IV, p. 407; A portion of this is commonly quoted as "Think and let think.".

 * I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail at, or despise, any man: much less those who profess to believe in the same Master. But I pity them much; having the same assurance, that Jesus is the Christ, and that no Romanist can expect to be saved, according to the terms of his covenant.
 * Letter to a Roman Catholic Priest, published in his Journal for 27 August 1739.
 * In, The works of the Rev. John Wesley, A. M., London, Wesleyan Conference Office, 1872, vol. 1, p. 220.

1740s

 * I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.
 * Letter to a Roman Catholic, July 18, 1749, The works of the Rev. John Wesley (1872), London, Wesleyan Conference Office, vol. X, p. 81.

1760s

 * Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
 * Letter (27 June 1760), published in The Works of the Rev. John Wesley (1813) Vol. XVI, p. 109
 * Variant: Every one, though born of God in an instant, yea, and sanctified in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
 * As quoted in an 1856 edition of Works

 * The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself, and less from others. Go thou and do likewise!
 * Letter to Reverend Samuel Furley (25 January 1762), Published in The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M. A., Founder of the Methodists (1872) by Luke Tyerman, p. 451.

 * Lord, let me not live to be useless!
 * Journal (22 December 1763)

 * Will any dare to speak against loving the Lord our God with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourselves? against a renewal of heart, not only in part, but in the whole image of God? Who is he that will open his mouth against being cleansed from all pollution both of flesh and spirit; or against having all the mind that was in Christ, and walking in all things as Christ walked? What man, who calls himself a Christian, has the hardiness to object to the devoting, not a part, but all our soul, body, and substance to God?
 * A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1766)

 * It is true, likewise, that the English in general, and indeed most of the men of learning in Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it; and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest against this violent compliment which so many that believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it. I owe them no such service. I take knowledge these are at the bottom of the outcry which has been raised, and with such insolence spread throughout the nation, in direct opposition not only to the Bible, but to the suffrage of the wisest and best of men in all ages and nations. They well know (whether Christians know it or not), that the giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible; and they know, on the other hand, that if but one account of the intercourse of men with separate spirits be admitted, their whole castle in the air (Deism, Atheism, Materialism) falls to the ground. I know no reason, therefore, why we should suffer even this weapon to be wrested out of our hands. Indeed there are numerous arguments besides, which abundantly confute their vain imaginations. But we need not be hooted out of one; neither reason nor religion require this.
 * Nehemiah Curnock, ed., 'The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.', London, Charles H. Kelly, vol. 5, p. 265 (entry of 25 May 1768)

 * Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
 * Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George Eayrs

 * His Majesty's character, then, after all the pains which have been taken to make him odious as well as contemptible remains unimpeached; and therefore cannot be in any degree the cause of the present commotions. His whole conduct both in public and private ever since he began his reign, the uniform tenor of his behaviour, the general course both of his words and actions, has been worthy of an Englishman, worthy of a Christian, and worthy of a King.
 * To a Friend, on ‘The Present State of Public Affairs’ (December 1768), John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. V: February 28, 1766, to December 9, 1772 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 376

1770s

 * Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.
 * Letter to John Benson (5 October 1770); published in Wesley's Select Letters (1837), p. 207

 * In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.
 * Journal (12 February 1772) after reading Some historical accounts of Guinea by Anthony Benezet

 * It has in all ages been allowed that the communion of saints extends to those in paradise as well as those upon earth as they are all one body united under one Head. And "Can death’s interposing tide / Spirits one in Christ divide?" But it is difficult to say either what kind or what degree of union may be between them. It is not improbable their fellowship with us is far more sensible than ours with them. Suppose any of them are present, they are hid from our eyes, but we are not hid from their sight. They no doubt clearly discern all our words and actions, if not all our thoughts too; for it is hard to think these walls of flesh and blood can intercept the view of an angelic being. But we have in general only a faint and indistinct perception of their presence, unless in some peculiar instances, where it may answer some gracious ends of Divine Providence. Then it may please God to permit that they should be perceptible, either by some of our outward senses or by an internal sense for which human language has not any name. But I suppose this is not a common blessing. I have known but few instances of it. To keep up constant and close communion with God is the most likely means to obtain this also.
 * Letter to Mary Bishop, an important Methodist "Class Meeting" leader,  (12 June 1773), in The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Seven Volumes, (1853),  Carlton & Phillips, New York, vol. VII, p. 164.  See also, Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology (Winter 2010), Joseph L. Mangina, Editor, Vol. 19, no. 1, p. 90.  Pro Ecclesia also states that "there is ample reason to believe that Wesley's theology and the theology presented in Lumen Gentium converge on the following points:   1. Creaturely participation. Wesley's Doctrine of Christian Perfection includes the notion that mankind participates (i.e. cooperates) in and with God's grace, contributing to its own sanctification.  Furthermore, there is a corporate dimension to our participation, making social interaction vital to the process of sanctification. 2. Creaturely mediation. Wesley's sacramental theology includes the concept of subordinate, creaturely mediation of Christ's grace. He extended the Anglican teaching about the means of grace so  that it included not only the two sacraments, but also such pious actions as prayer and Scripture study. In this way, perhaps even more than in Catholic doctrine, the sacramental efficaciousness of human behavior is emphasized. 3. The Holy Spirit as the bond uniting Christ's body. Wesley's theology includes doctrine concerning the bond shared by members of the body of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit—a bond transcending time and space, holding the entire body, past, present, and future in a vital, living communion. In this way, the eschatological church is present to earthly, historical reality. In addition, Wesley's later work indicates a conviction in the interaction between the saints in heaven and Christians on earth. He clearly stated his belief that those who reside in heaven continue to serve God by serving God's children on earth and that it is quite likely that they can hear our words and perhaps, even our thoughts. (pp. 90-91)

 * Permit me, sir, to give you one piece of advice. Be not so positive; especially with regard to things which are neither easy nor necessary to be determined. When I was young I was sure of everything. In a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before. At present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to man.
 * Reply to a letter signed "Philosophaster" addressed to him in the London Magazine of 1774, in London Magazine 1775, p. 26

 * I do not intend to enter upon the question whether the Americans are in the right or in the wrong. Here all my prejudices are against the Americans; for I am an High Churchman, the son of an High Churchman, bred up from my childhood in the highest notions of passive obedience and non-resistance. And yet, in spite of my long-rooted prejudices, I cannot avoid thinking, if I think at all, these, an oppressed people, asked for nothing more than their legal rights, and that in the most modest and inoffensive manner that the nature of the thing would allow.
 * Letter to Lord North (15 June 1775), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VI (Epworth Press, 1931), p. 156

 * Let us put away our sins; the real ground of all our calamities! Which never will or can be thoroughly removed, till we fear God and honour the King.
 * A Calm Address to our American Colonies (1775), pp. 17–18.

 * I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
 * Journal entry (1 August 1777), published in The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley (1827), p. 104

 * Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
 * Letter (10 December 1777)

 * When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
 * From the Preface to A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists, (c 1779)

 * In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.
 * Popery Calmly Considered (1779): The works of the Rev. John Wesley, 1812, London : Printed at the Conference - Office … by Thomas Cordeux, agent, vol. XV, p. 180 - Google Books

Sermons on Several Occasions (1771)

 * “And Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself.” Acts 26:24. And so say all the world, the men who know not God, of all that are of Paul’s religion: of every one who is so a follower of him as he was of Christ. It is true, there is a sort of religion, nay, and it is called Christianity too, which may be practised without any such Imputation, which is generally allowed to be consistent with common sense, —that is, a religion of form, a round of outward duties, performed in a decent, regular manner. You may add orthodoxy thereto, a system of right opinions, yea, and some quantity of heathen morality; and yet not many will pronounce, that “much religion hath made you mad.” But if you aim at the religion of the heart, if you talk of “righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost,” then it will not be long before your sentence is passed, “Thou art beside thyself.”
 * Sermon 37 "The Nature of Enthusiasm"

 * As to the word itself, it is generally allowed to be of Greek extraction. But whence the Greek word, enthousiasmos, is derived, none has yet been able to show. Some have endeavoured to derive it from en theoi, in God; because all enthusiasm has reference to him. … It is not improbable, that one reason why this uncouth word has been retained in so many languages was, because men were not better agreed concerning the meaning than concerning the derivation of it. They therefore adopted the Greek word, because they did not understand it: they did not translate it into their own tongues, because they knew not how to translate it; it having been always a word of a loose, uncertain sense, to which no determinate meaning was affixed. It is not, therefore, at all surprising, that it is so variously taken at this day; different persons understanding it in different senses, quite inconsistent with each other. Some take it in a good sense, for a divine impulse or impression, superior to all the natural faculties, and suspending, for the time, either in whole or in part, both the reason and the outward senses. In this meaning of the word, both the Prophets of old, and the Apostles, were proper enthusiasts; being, at divers times, so filled with the Spirit, and so influenced by Him who dwelt in their hearts, that the exercise of their own reason, their senses, and all their natural faculties, being suspended, they were wholly actuated by the power of God, and “spake” only “as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” Others take the word in an indifferent sense, such as is neither morally good nor evil: thus they speak of the enthusiasm of the poets; of Homer and Virgil in particular. And this a late eminent writer extends so far as to assert, there is no man excellent in his profession, whatsoever it be, who has not in his temper a strong tincture of enthusiasm. By enthusiasm these appear to understand, all uncommon vigour of thought, a peculiar fervour of spirit, a vivacity and strength not to be found in common men; elevating the soul to greater and higher things than cool reason could have attained. But neither of these is the sense wherein the word “enthusiasm” is most usually understood. The generality of men, if no farther agreed, at least agree thus far concerning it, that it is something evil: and this is plainly the sentiment of all those who call the religion of the heart “enthusiasm.” Accordingly, I shall take it in the following pages, as an evil; a misfortune, if not a fault. As to the nature of enthusiasm, it is ,undoubtedly a disorder of the mind; and such a disorder as greatly hinders the exercise of reason. Nay, sometimes it wholly sets it aside: it not only dims but shuts the eyes of the understanding. It may, therefore, well be accounted a species of madness; of madness rather than of folly: seeing a fool is properly one who draws wrong conclusions from right premisses; whereas a madman draws right conclusions, but from wrong premisses. And so does an enthusiast suppose his premisses true, and his conclusions would necessarily follow. But here lies his mistake: his premisses are false. He imagines himself to be what he is not: and therefore, setting out wrong, the farther he goes, the more he wanders out of the way.
 * Sermon 37 "The Nature of Enthusiasm"

 * Beware you are not a fiery, persecuting enthusiast. Do not imagine that God has called you (just contrary to the spirit of Him you style your Master) to destroy men’s lives, and not to save them. Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love.
 * Sermon 37 "The Nature of Enthusiasm"

 * Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it. God can give the end without any means at all; but you have no reason to think He will. Therefore constantly and carefully use all those means which He has appointed to be the ordinary channels of His grace. Use every means which either reason or Scripture recommends, as conducive (through the free love of God in Christ) either to the obtaining or increasing any of the gifts of God. Thus expect a daily growth in that pure and holy religion which the world always did, and always will, call “enthusiasm;” but which, to all who are saved from real enthusiasm, from merely nominal Christianity, is “the wisdom of God, and the power of God;” the glorious image of the Most High; “righteousness and peace;” a “fountain of living water, springing up into everlasting life!”
 * Sermon 37 "The Nature of Enthusiasm"

 * In order to examine ourselves thoroughly, let the case be proposed in the strongest manner. What, if I were to see a Papist, an Arian, a Socinian casting out devils? If I did, I could not forbid even him, without convicting myself of bigotry. Yea, if it could be supposed that I should see a Jew, a Deist, or a Turk, doing the same, were I to forbid him either directly or indirectly, I should be no better than a bigot still. O stand clear of this! But be not content with not forbidding any that casts out devils. It is well to go thus far; but do not stop here. If you will avoid all bigotry, go on. In every instance of this kind, whatever the instrument be, acknowledge the finger of God. And not only acknowledge, but rejoice in his work, and praise his name with thanksgiving. Encourage whomsoever God is pleased to employ, to give himself wholly up thereto. Speak well of him wheresoever you are; defend his character and his mission. Enlarge, as far as you can, his sphere of action; show him all kindness in word and deed; and cease not to cry to God in his behalf, that he may save both himself and them that hear him. I need add but one caution: Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own. It is not impossible, that one who casts out devils himself, may yet forbid you so to do. You may observe, this is the very case mentioned in the text. The Apostles forbade another to do what they did themselves. But beware of retorting. It is not your part to return evil for evil. Another’s not observing the direction of our Lord, is no reason why you should neglect it. Nay, but let him have all the bigotry to himself. If he forbid you, do not you forbid him. Rather labour, and watch, and pray the more, to confirm your love toward him. If he speak all manner of evil of you, speak all manner of good (that is true) of him.
 * Sermon 38 "A Caution against Bigotry

 * Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.
 * Sermon 39 Catholic Spirit from the 1872 edition of Wesley's Complete Works - Thomas Jackson, editor

Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774)

 * I deny that villany is ever necessary. It is impossible that it should ever be necessary for any reasonable creature to violate all the laws of justice, mercy, and truth. No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity. It can never be necessary for a rational being to sink himself below a brute. A man can be under no necessity of degrading himself into a wolf. The absurdity of the supposition is so glaring, that one would wonder any one can help seeing it.

 * Are you a man? Then you should have an human heart. But have you indeed? What is your heart made of? Is there no such principle as Compassion there? Do you never feel another's pain? Have you no Sympathy? No sense of human woe? No pity for the miserable? When you saw the flowing eyes, the heaving breasts, or the bleeding sides and tortured limbs of your fellow-creatures, was you a stone, or a brute? Did you look upon them with the eyes of a tiger? When you squeezed the agonizing creatures down in the ship, or when you threw their poor mangled remains into the sea, had you no relenting? Did not one tear drop from your eye, one sigh escape from your breast? Do you feel no relenting now? If you do not, you must go on, till the measure of your iniquities is full. Then will the Great GOD deal with You, as you have dealt with them, and require all their blood at your hands.

1780s

 * I plead for the safety of my country—yea, for the children that are yet unborn. ‘But cannot your country be safe unless the Roman Catholics are persecuted for their religion?’ Hold! Religion is out of the question. But I would not have them persecuted at all; I would only have them hindered from doing hurt. I would not put it in their power (and I do not wish that others should) to cut the throats of their quiet neighbours. ‘But they will give security for their peaceable behaviour.’ They cannot while they continue Roman Catholics; they cannot while they are members of that Church which receives the decrees of the Council of Constance, which maintains the spiritual power of the Bishop of Rome or the doctrine of priestly absolution.
 * Letter to the Editors of the Freeman's Journal in answer to Arthur O'Leary (23 March 1780), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VII: March 23, 1780, to July 24, 1787 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 4

 * The whole matter is this. I have without the least bitterness advanced three reasons why I conceive it is not safe to tolerate the Roman Catholics. But still, I would not have them persecuted; I wish them to enjoy the same liberty, civil and religious, which they enjoyed in England before the late Act was repealed. Meantime I would not have a sword put into their hands; I would not give them liberty to hurt others.
 * Letter to the Editors of the Freeman's Journal (23 March 1780), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VII: March 23, 1780, to July 24, 1787 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 7

 * You must immediately drop any preacher that gives any countenance to Nathaniel Ward. While I live I will bear the most public testimony I can to the reality of witchcraft. Your denial of this springs originally from the Deists; and simple Christians lick their spittle. I heartily set them at open defiance.
 * Letter to Thomas Tattershall (13 November 1785), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VII: March 23, 1780, to July 24, 1787 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 300

 * Most of those who gave him this title did not distinguish between a Jacobite and a Tory; whereby I mean ‘one that believes God, not the people, to be the origin of all civil power.’ In this sense he was a Tory; so was my father; so am I. But I am no more a Jacobite than I am a Turk; neither was my brother. I have heard him over and over disclaim that character.
 * Letter to the Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine (24 December 1785), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VII: March 23, 1780, to July 24, 1787 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 305

 * Ever since I heard of it first I felt a perfect detestation of the horrid Slave Trade, but more particularly since I had the pleasure of reading what you have published upon the subject. Therefore I cannot but do everything in my power to forward the glorious design of your Society. And it must be a comfortable thing to every man of humanity to observe the spirit with which you have hitherto gone on. Indeed, you cannot go on without more than common resolution, considering the opposition you have to encounter, all the opposition which can be made by men who are not encumbered with either honour, conscience, or humanity, and will rush on per fasque ne fasque, through every possible means, to secure their great goddess, Interest. Unless they are infatuated in this point also, they will spare no money to carry their cause; and this has the weight of a thousand arguments with the generality of men.
 * Letter to William Wilberforce (11 October 1787), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VIII: July 24, 1787, to February 24, 1791 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 17

 * I believe there is no liturgy in the World, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational Piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.
 * The Sunday Service of the Methodists; With Other Occasional Services (1788), p. 3

 * But when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, the brightest crown will be given to the sufferers.
 * Works of the Rev. John Wesley, Letter XI, 1789. (J&J Harper, 1827), p. 375.

1790s

 * I would do anything that is in my power toward the extirpation of that trade which is a scandal not only to Christianity but humanity.
 * On the slave trade; letter to Henry Moore (14 March 1790), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VIII: July 24, 1787, to February 24, 1791 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 207

 * That if the best of Kings—the most virtuous of Queens—and the most perfect Constitution, could make any nation happy, the people of this country had every reason to think themselves so.
 * Speech in the West Riding of Yorkshire, reported in the Leeds Intelligencer (4 May 1790), quoted in Robert F. Wearmouth, Methodism and the Common People of the Eighteenth Century (Epworth Press, 1945), p. 257

 * Unless the divine power has raised you up to be as Athanasius contra mundum, I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise in opposing that execrable villany, which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of His might, till even American slavery (the vilest that ever saw the sun) shall vanish away before it.
 * Letter to William Wilberforce (24 February 1791), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VIII: July 24, 1787, to February 24, 1791 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 265

 * Reading this morning a tract wrote by a poor African, I was particularly struck by that circumstance, that a man who has a black skin, being wronged or outraged by a white man, can have no redress; it being a law in all our Colonies that the oath of a black against a white goes for nothing. What villany is this!
 * Letter to William Wilberforce (24 February 1791), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VIII: July 24, 1787, to February 24, 1791 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 265

 * The best of it all is, God is with us.
 * A statement among his final words, said to have been repeated two or three times, as quoted in The Living Wesley (1891) by James Harrison Rigg
 * Variants: The best of it is, God is with us. Best of all, God is with us.

Undated

 * I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.
 * Letter to Charles Wesley

 * Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
 * Sermon 50 "The Use of Money" in The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. (1840) edited by John Emory, Vol. I, p. 446
 * Popularly paraphrased as: Make all you can, Save all you can, Give all you can.

 * Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
 * Sermon 93 On Dress. Compare: "Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God", Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Book ii (1605)

 * I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.
 * As quoted in the "Saturday Review" (28 November 1874)

 * Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the Divine existence.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 285

 * As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.
 * As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards, p. 127

 * The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
 * As quoted in England in the Eighteenth Century (1714 - 1815) (1964) by J. H. Plumb, p. 94

 * I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
 * As quoted in The Law of Rewards : Giving What You Can't Keep to Gain What You Can't Lose (2003 by Randy C. Alcorn, p. 18

 * ... We now come to a numerous tribe, that seem to make approaches even to humanity; that bear an awkward resemblance to the human form, and discover the same faint efforts at intellectual sagacity.
 * Animals of the MONKEY class are furnished with hands instead of paws; their ears, eyes, eye-lids, lips, and breasts, are like those of mankind; their internal conformation also bears some distant likeness; and the whole offers a picture that may mortify the pride of such as make their persons the principal objects of their admiration.
 * A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation; Or A Compendium of Natural Philosophy New York: Bangs and T. Mason, 1823, Part the Second, Chapter I, volume 1, pages 147-148. Wesley Center Online

Disputed

 * Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can.
 * Statement commonly known as "John Wesley's Rule"
 * Variant Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.
 * According to Richard Heitzenrater, Professor of Church History and Wesleyan Studies at Duke Divinity School, there is no evidence that John Wesley ever wrote the rule that is attributed to him.
 * In the sermon titled "The Use of Money" Wesley said, "Employ whatever God has entrusted you with in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree . . . to all men." This sermon is in the collection titled "Wesley's Standard Sermons." They are called "standard" because all Methodist preachers were instructed to read them and use them in interpreting the Christian faith.

 * You may be as orthodox as the devil and as wicked.
 * This may be a paraphrase or summary of Wesley's thoughts that originated with Hugh Price Hughes; in his preface to Ethical Christianity : A Series of Sermons (1892) he states "It is really quite surprising that one could honestly confound Orthodoxy with Christianity, because, as John Wesley used to say in his emphatic and decisive manner, you may be as orthodox as the devil and as wicked." He does not place the statement itself in quotes, though his daughter, Dorothea Price Hughes, in her book The Life of Hugh Price Hughes (1904), p. 146, states "The saying of Wesley's that a man may be as orthodox as the devil and as wicked, was one in which he delighted, and which he often quoted." No published sources of the statement prior to 1892 have yet been located.

 * Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?
 * Attributed to Wesley in The English Poets: Addison to Blake (1880) by Thomas Humphry Ward, it also sometimes attributed to his brother Charles Wesley, and appears even earlier attributed to George Whitefield, in The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal, Vol. 49 (June 1773 - January 1774), p. 430; this has also been reported as a remark made by Rowland Hill, when he arranged an Easter hymn to the tune of "Pretty, Pretty Polly Hopkins, in The Rambler, Vol. 9 (1858), p. 191; as well as to William Booth, who popularized it as an addage in promoting The Salvation Army.

Misattributed

 * Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
 * As quoted in The Peaceful Path of Prosperity : Practical and Spiritual Approaches to Enrich Your Life with Your Inner Wealth (2001) by Danny Babineaux; not found in any record of Wesley before 2001.

 * God buries his workmen, but carries on his work.
 * Charles Wesley, as quoted in Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (1889). This appears with two quotes of John Wesley on the monument to both men in Westminster Abbey, and is commonly attributed to John.

 * The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.
 * John Wesley Lord, as quoted in TIME magazine (1 February 1963)

Quotes about Wesley

 * Wesley was a great Englishman, first and last...if any one single man stood between England and the monstrous upheavals on the Continent, it was John Wesley... He was typically English: the best native qualities of the Englishman were in him, and were raised to such an extraordinary pitch that they became genius... Historians of that century who filled their pages with Napoleon and had nothing to say of John Wesley now realise that they cannot explain the nineteenth-century England until they can explain Wesley. And I believe it is true to say that you cannot understand twentieth-century America unless you can understand Wesley.
 * Stanley Baldwin, speech to the 150th anniversary meeting of Wesley's Chapel, London (1 November 1928), published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), pp. 94-98

 * [I]t was Morgan Phillips who said that the Labour movement owed more to John Wesley than it did to Marx.
 * James Callaghan, speech in the House of Commons (5 July 1977)

 * This country owes an enormous amount to Wesley, who was of course a High Tory [Mrs Thatcher was a Methodist by upbringing]. He inculcated the work ethic, and duty. You worked hard, you got on by the result of your own efforts: then, as you prospered, it was your duty to help others to prosper also. The essence of Methodist is in Matthew 24 – the Parable of the Talents. You have a duty to make what you can out of your talents, and to assist others.
 * Margaret Thatcher, interview for The Sunday Telegraph (26 June 1987)

 * As preachers and evangelists, Whitefield and other early field-preachers were more impressive than Wesley. But it was Wesley who was the superlatively energetic and skillful organiser, administrator, and law-giver. He succeeded in combining in exactly the right proportions democracy and discipline, doctrine and emotionalism; his achievement lay not so much in the hysterical revivalist meetings (which were not uncommon in the century of Tyburn) but in the organisation of self-sustaining Methodist societies in trading and market centres, and in mining, weaving, and labouring communities, the democratic participation of whose members in the life of the Church was both enlisted and strictly superintended and disciplined. He facilitated entry to these societies by sweeping away all barriers of sectarian doctrines.
 * E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963), p. 38

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A proverb (from the Latin proverbium) is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and revered, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. They are often metaphorical. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim. If a proverb is distinguished by particularly good phrasing, it may be known as an aphorism.

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title: Category:Proverbs


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Talk:Les Misérables

Is there any reason for this not to be at Les Misérables? Aranel 01:52, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

small change
I changed a couple of things in the note on Cosette. Thomyès was never married to Fantine and gave a speach on why such things are foolish. He was always a man of pleasure. Also, she did not go to work in Paris and ended up working for Valjean in Monteuil-sur-mer.

intentions...
Within the next week I intend to edit this collection a bit and update the formatting, and also probably add a few quotes. ~ Kalki 10:44, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

title: Talk:Les Misérables