World Animal Conscience - A campaigning pressure group, with the objective of securing improvements in animal rights in Malta. Includes profile of the group, articles, campaigns and vegetarian recipes.
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-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Animal Welfare The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Animal Welfare
What's new? Most of my wife. "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Animal Welfare "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Animal Welfare
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Animal Welfare I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Animal Welfare
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Animal Welfare "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Animal Welfare
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Animal Welfare "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Animal Welfare
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Animal Welfare Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Animal Welfare
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Animal Welfare "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Animal Welfare
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Animal Welfare Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Animal Welfare
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Animal Welfare Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Animal Welfare
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Animal Welfare He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Animal Welfare
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous 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, All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Animal Welfare The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Animal Welfare
