Wokingham Town Council - Details of services, meetings and events, together with contact information.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Government Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Government
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Government "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Government
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Government Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Government
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Government And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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 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 Government
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben 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 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Government "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Government
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Government Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Government
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "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) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Government If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Government
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Government "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Government You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Government
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Government "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Government
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Government "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Government
