Workfare-Fight Mailing List - A list for organizing welfare recipients and fighting workfare internationally.
Venstre - English summary of the positions and vision of Denmark's liberal party, included selected speech transcripts.
Danish People's Party - History and platform of the right-wing party founded in 1995 in Denmark.
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Politics Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Politics It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Politics
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Politics "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Politics
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Politics "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Politics
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Politics A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Politics
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Politics
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Politics You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Politics
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Politics Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Politics
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Politics Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Politics
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Politics The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Politics
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Politics Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Politics
