Quotes
Quotes - Jones
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Hamilton Wright Mabie -Franklin P. Jones.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun].
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
I have not yet begun to fight!
My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
It was a wonderful time [making "The Partridge Family"] and I loved every minute of it. We had a great executive producer who was in tune with all of us . . . We had an incredible rapport and I think that's what made us successful.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
I have not yet begun to fight.
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light, Where God speaks to Jones, In the very same tones, That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.
When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
