Robert W. Merriweather quote: "Vacation is the time and vehicle to release, refresh and rejuvenate your mind from the work grind. Failure to do so brings your creativity and enthusiasm to the performance of a mechanism in need of maintenance. This is why you have a prescribed maintenance calendar; utilize it!"

The lie made to the person in the mirror does the most damage to its reflection.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

If your tattoos could remember and speak why they were conceived what would they say? Moreover, woul...
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

You want an elixir for life's drama? Laugh!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

I give from my own volition and not for the recognition…
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

When the heart is torn time is the only stitch to mend the wound.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

Acceptance supersedes expectance!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

The body germinates, the mind sprouts, the soul nourishes and the spirit blooms.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

If time heals all hurt; will I live long enough?
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

If you are in the driver's seat your love is the least.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

If you have a bad day, guess what you chose it!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

Time the most precious gift one can give. Each moment is unique because it will never happen again�...
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

Life shows you a lot. If you open your eyes and take a look!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

‎"Life" the most fun and scariest ride on the planet!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

Is the life you are living a 'reel' or is it 'real'?
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

What do you prefer: brutal honesty or humane lies?
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

When you can’t pour water out of your boot with a hole in it, you need to step back and see the an...
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

What you put your energy into is what you produce.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

I love me some me; without it I cannot love you fully.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

Preparing the mind for the work week grind...
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

When you pass hateful words from your mouth to others it is like passing gas - it stinks and no one ...
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that kee...
ROBERT W. SARNOFF

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, ...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
ROBERT W. SERVICE

The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958:

A GREA...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

A promise made is a debt unpaid
ROBERT W. SERVICE

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get do...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
ROBERT W. SARNOFF

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
ROBERT W. SARNOFF

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy end...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

The public may be willing to forgive us for mistakes in judgment but it will not forgive us for mist...
ROBERT W. HAACK

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
ROBERT W. SERVICE

A successful voyage requires not only a sound vessel but also a skilled crew
ROBERT W. RICE

Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 It was not the pleasant things in the world th...
ROBERT W. DALE

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the h...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

Choice, not chance, determines human destiny.
ROBERT W. ELLIS

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
ROBERT W. SERVICE

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

Memang, seperti di Indonesia, daripada dilemparkan ke dalam keranjang sampah sejarah, ketidaksetaraa...
ROBERT W. HEFNER

The Quitter

When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child,
And ...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn...
ROBERT W. SERVICE

It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent t...
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communica...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same cours...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national gove...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and pr...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progre...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this mo...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which t...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
W. WIRT

Poetry is the language of feeling.
W. WINTER

What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how...
W. MITCHELL

Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d...
W. MITCHELL

Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
W. SECKER

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the ...
W. SECKER

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
W. FUSSELMAN

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become...
BILL W.

There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
JULIA W

VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.
W. DAVIDSON

You'll never find another like me because im the original.
RACHEL W

You might as well be nice to everyone, because in the end if something happens to someone your mean/...
RACHEL W

I remember on that occasion, Roz invited a group of friends to gather around a festive table for a m...
W. HULL

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more c...
W. GLADDEN

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes its better to leave them broken instead of hurting yourself ...
ASHLEY W

Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband.
W. GRANT

If we were to follow the format of Edith's memorial service, we would be here until next Wednesday,
W. HULL

Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to...
W. PATTERSON

Cheap things aren't good, and good things aren't cheap.
MARK W.

Every morning began with Roz getting her mother up, dressed and in a wheelchair, then going off to t...
W. HULL

When you come right down to it, the ground you stand on is the ground you stand on.
W. LEITZEN

We are hear to celebrate, and I mean celebrate, the unique and wonderful life of Rosamond McPherson ...
W. HULL

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure ou...
W. EUGENE SMITH

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt t...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reve...
W. EUGENE SMITH

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Para...
W. H. AUDEN

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. FIELDS

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. FIELDS

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. DAVIES

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot w...
GEORGE W. BUSH

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage ...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most ...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long i...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in ad...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
GEORGE W. BUSH

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

We are here to make another world.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if th...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. FIELDS

There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
W. C. FIELDS

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butle...
W. C. FIELDS

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn f...
W. C. FIELDS

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm ...
W. C. FIELDS

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for th...
W. C. FIELDS

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. FIELDS

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W. C. FIELDS

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W. C. FIELDS

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. FIELDS

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. FIELDS

Writing is the supreme solace.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, on...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of ligh...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the ba...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. MERWIN

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. MERWIN

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the wh...
W. S. MERWIN

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who w...
W. RICHARD STEVENS

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
W. RICHARD STEVENS

I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having ha...
W. RICHARD STEVENS

Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,&...
W. P. KINSELLA

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. KINSELLA

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n...
W. P. KINSELLA

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W. P. KINSELLA

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard ...
W. P. KINSELLA

Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If y...
W. P. KINSELLA

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. KINSELLA

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it...
W. P. KINSELLA

I don't believe in the afterlife.
W. P. KINSELLA

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like bird...
W. P. KINSELLA

Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by...
W. P. KINSELLA

The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
W. MARK FELT

I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
W. MARK FELT

I have to do this my way.
W. MARK FELT

I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
W. MARK FELT

I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
W. MARK FELT

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. MURRAY

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
W. H. MURRAY

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. MURRAY

It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the...
W. H. DAVIES

I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as ...
W. H. DAVIES

Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-a...
W. H. DAVIES

I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES

I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot ...
W. H. DAVIES

However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succee...
W. H. DAVIES

My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to al...
W. H. DAVIES

It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I can...
W. H. DAVIES

I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw...
W. H. DAVIES

Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. DAVIES

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. DAVIES

How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are alm...
W. H. DAVIES

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him w...
W. H. DAVIES

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES

I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a...
W. H. DAVIES

As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN

All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ...
W. H. AUDEN

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. AUDEN

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him ...
W. H. AUDEN

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature...
W. H. AUDEN

Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. AUDEN

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. AUDEN

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. AUDEN

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. AUDEN

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer un...
W. G. SEBALD

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W. G. SEBALD

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed ...
W. G. SEBALD

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only whe...
W. G. SEBALD

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war ca...
W. G. SEBALD

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can enca...
W. G. SEBALD

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic...
W. G. SEBALD

I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your re...
W. G. SEBALD

To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy ...
W. G. SEBALD

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were s...
W. G. SEBALD

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes,...
W. G. SEBALD

I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the na...
W. G. SEBALD

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear t...
W. G. SEBALD

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You...
W. G. SEBALD

Vacation is the time and vehicle to release, refresh and rejuvenate your mind from the work grind. Failure to do so brings your creativity and enthusiasm to the performance of a mechanism in need of maintenance. This is why you have a prescribed maintenance calendar; utilize it!

Robert W. Merriweather

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