Harold MacMillan Quotes
Sad Quotes by Harold MacMillan

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him.
Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
- Harold MacMillan

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
- Harold MacMillan

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
- Harold MacMillan

To be alive at all involves some risk.
- Harold MacMillan

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas.
Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and
none of the original ideas is sound.
- Harold MacMillan

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
- Harold MacMillan

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop.
They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
- Harold MacMillan

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
- Harold MacMillan

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to
fall down for the divine right of experts.
- Harold MacMillan

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
- Harold MacMillan

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
- Harold MacMillan

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
- Harold MacMillan

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead,
it means that the dead are living.
- Harold MacMillan

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the
cliche and the indiscretion.
- Harold MacMillan

It's no use crying over spilt summits.
- Harold MacMillan

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance;
beautiful in its way,
but incapable of growth.
- Harold MacMillan

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody
is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
- Harold MacMillan

I was determined that no British government should
be brought down by the action of two tarts.
- Harold MacMillan

There might be 1 finger on the trigger,
but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
- Harold MacMillan

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.
Decency is very good.
Better decent than indecent.
But I don't think it's enough.
- Harold MacMillan

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit.
When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
- Harold MacMillan

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort
in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
- Harold MacMillan

I have never found, in a long experience of politics,
that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- Harold MacMillan

At home, you always have to be a politician;
when you're abroad,
you almost feel yourself a statesman.
- Harold MacMillan

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
- Harold MacMillan

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
- Harold MacMillan

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool,
except a young fool.
But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old
fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
- Harold MacMillan

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
- Jerome Blattner

He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard

Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

No regrets.
- Anonymous

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

You have no values. With you its all nihilism,
cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein

The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain