Thom Jones quotes

Thom Jones quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.”
-- Thom Jones

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“You have to know the human heart.”
-- Thom Jones

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“There's always someone bigger and badder than yourself”
-- Thom Jones

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“I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.”
“I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.”
“In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.”
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”
“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
“It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.”
“The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.”

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