| "A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." »Dorothy C. Fisher |
| "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary." »William Jr. Wrigley |
| "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." »Thomas Carruthers |
| "Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries." »Mark Twain |
| "Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any." »Arthur Wellesley |
| "Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation." »Gail Sheehy |
| "Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary." »Maurice Baring |
| "What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." »Richard Harkness |
| "I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." »Carl Reiner |
| "When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways." »Bertrand Russell |
| "One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The unnecessary War'." »Winston Churchill |
| "My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*." »Theodore Hesburgh |
| "If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple." »R. Brokhoff |
| "Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll." »Billy Madison |
| "All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism." »B. J. Gupta |
| "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese garlic makes it good." »Alice May Brock |
| "The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner." »Kedar Joshi |
| "Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American." »Malcolm X |
| "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." »Jacques Prvert |
| "You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else." »Eric Hoffer |
| "When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable." »Paul De Gondi |
| "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "One only needs two tools in life WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop." »G. Weilacher |
| "Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm." »David L Boren |
| "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home." »Winston Churchill |
| "As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense." »Jonathan Swift |
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