A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Melling Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Melling
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Melling A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Melling
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Melling "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Melling
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Melling "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Melling
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Melling There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Melling
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Melling Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Melling
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Melling "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Melling
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Melling Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Melling
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Melling "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Melling
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Melling "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Melling
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Melling It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Melling
