National Garden Exhibition Centre : - Includes opening times, admission prices, virtual tour, an interactive map of the exhibits and a photo gallery.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Travel and Tourism
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Travel and Tourism I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Travel and Tourism
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Travel and Tourism A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Travel and Tourism
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Travel and Tourism
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Travel and Tourism An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Travel and Tourism
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Travel and Tourism A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Travel and Tourism
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Travel and Tourism I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Travel and Tourism
