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JOY:

JOY: Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, Bidding adieu. -Keats: Ode on Melancholy The most evident token and apparent sign  of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. -Montaigne Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. -Psalms 30:5

JOURNALISM:

JOURNALISM: Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification. -James Bennett Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land. -Samuel Bowles Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods for a magazine. -Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. -Napoleon Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. -G.B.Shaw Get your facts first, and then you can distort'em as much as your please. -Mark Twain The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read. -Oscar Wilde.

JEST:

JEST: And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. -Francis Bacon Thou cannot not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy. -Benjamin Franklin It is better to lose a new jest than an old friend. -Gabriel Harvey Play with me and hurt me not. -Gabriel Harvey: Marginalia Jesters do not often prove prophets. -Shakespeare: King Lear

JEALOUSY:

JEALOUSY: Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. -De Puisieyx There is more self-love than love in jealousy. -La Rochefoucld O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. -Schiller O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. -Shakespeare: Othello They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they are jealous. -Shakespeare :Othello

IGNORANCE:

IGNORANCE: Ignorance gives one a large range of possibilities. -George Eliot There are many things of which a wise man may wish to be ignorant. -Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. -Goethe Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance. -Ben Johnson A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. -Charles Kettering The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand. -Cesare Lombroso A food uttereth all his mind. -Proverbs 29:11 There is no sin except stupidity. -Oscar Wilde

IDLENESS:

IDLENESS: Idleness, the badge of gentry. -Robert burton I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. -Hugo Grotius Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. -Thomas haliburton As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. -Samuel Johnson Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. -La Rochefoucauld