#mel

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#answers #asking #author #composer #expecting

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#accommodation #any #go #having #homelessness

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#bright #except #fear #feeling #future

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#get #i #i write #like #melody

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive. ↗

— Lynn Swann

#college #extremely #flag #football #i

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#appeasement #i #seem #smell #stench

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#become #before #deadly #extremely #food

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#delivered #extremely #four #go #governments

The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee. ↗

— Tara Lipinski

#coffee #fresh #ice #like #morning