Bristol China Partnership - Supporting greater cooperation between the people of China and Bristol membership information, news, contact information and diary of events.
Bristol Hannover Council - Arranges exchanges between local schools and educational bodies and develops cultural and social ties of all kinds with the German city: news, committee members, events diary.
Bristol Japan Club - News, events and links from a society for people living, working or studying in the area who are either Japanese or have an interest in the country.
Bristol Oporto Association - Twinning organisation building local links with Portugal's second city: news, events, membership details, contact information.
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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 My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Twinning and Cultural Links The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Twinning and Cultural Links
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Twinning and Cultural Links 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 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Twinning and Cultural Links
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Twinning and Cultural Links "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Twinning and Cultural Links
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Twinning and Cultural Links Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Twinning and Cultural Links
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Twinning and Cultural Links "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne 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 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 Twinning and Cultural Links
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Twinning and Cultural Links Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Twinning and Cultural Links
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Twinning and Cultural Links The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 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 Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Twinning and Cultural Links
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Twinning and Cultural Links It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Twinning and Cultural Links
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Twinning and Cultural Links The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Twinning and Cultural Links
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "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) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Twinning and Cultural Links The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Twinning and Cultural Links
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Twinning and Cultural Links I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Twinning and Cultural Links
