Bristol Mauritian Association - A multicultural group of young Mauritian families established in Bristol: information on local and national events, links to other cultural groups and news from Mauritius.
Bristol Race Forum - Assists local black and minority ethnic communities to communicate with the city council: events, work in progress.
Asian Arts Agency - Includes information, networking and advocacy resources for the development of Asian arts.
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Black and Ethnic "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "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) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Black and Ethnic
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Black and Ethnic If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Black and Ethnic
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Black and Ethnic We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Black and Ethnic
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Black and Ethnic Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Black and Ethnic
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Black and Ethnic The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Black and Ethnic
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Black and Ethnic Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Black and Ethnic
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Black and Ethnic He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Black and Ethnic
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Black and Ethnic "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "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) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Black and Ethnic
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Black and Ethnic I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Black and Ethnic
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Black and Ethnic "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Black and Ethnic
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Black and Ethnic The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Black and Ethnic
