John Major Quotes

It seems like people don't learn from the past.

Never, ever forget history.

The authority of a king is the keystone which closeth up the arch of order and government

The state of Monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for Kings are not only God's lieutenants, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

The king is from God, the law from the king.

Almost all men are born under it, all men are used to it, few men are used to anything else; till of late years nobody ever dispraised it, ... men were reconciled to mixed monarchy in England by the same causes by which they were reconciled to pure monarchy in Morocco, Turkey, and Hindustan.

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth, for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth and sit upon God's throne.

Should the old system remain, then I swear before God to you that within a few years we shall see a Stadholder back again for I know of no other counter-weight to the formidable spirit of Aristocracy …

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.

Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.

A husband may forget where he went on his honeymoon, but he never forgets why.

I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

It's very difficult to follow our dreams, but it's even more difficult to forget them.

I remember a lot of people, but when I meet people and I'm stoned, I'm not as good with names.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.