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The Maclean Collection - Comprehensive series of speeches and articles by John Maclean (1879-1923).
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Maclean, John "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Maclean, John
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Maclean, John "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Maclean, John
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Maclean, John It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Maclean, John
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Maclean, John Man and wife make one fool. Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Maclean, John
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Maclean, John You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Maclean, John
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 Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Maclean, John "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Maclean, John
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Maclean, John In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Maclean, John
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Maclean, John The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Maclean, John
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Maclean, John "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Maclean, John
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "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) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Maclean, John We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Maclean, John
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Maclean, John Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Maclean, John
