Child Care in Olney - The support group was set up in Olney, in May 1998, to provide a single point of contact for parents seeking childminding services.
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Society and Culture Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Society and Culture
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Society and Culture "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Society and Culture
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Society and Culture The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Society and Culture
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Society and Culture "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Society and Culture Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Society and Culture
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Society and Culture 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 I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Society and Culture There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Society and Culture
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright 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 Society and Culture It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Society and Culture
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost 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 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Society and Culture Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Society and Culture
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Society and Culture The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "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) Society and Culture
