London Gibraltarian Society - Demands self determination for Gibraltar. UK based lobby group, organising demonstrations and letter writing campaigns. Useful mailing list.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Politics Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Politics
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Politics
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Politics Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Politics
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Politics "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Politics
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Politics If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Politics
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Politics Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Politics
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Politics "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Politics Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Politics
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) 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 Politics "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Politics
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Politics The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson 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 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Politics What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Politics
