1094 (City of Ely) Squadron Air Training Corps. - Uniformed youth organisation for young people from 13 to 17, which meets at the Cadet Centre, Heaton Drive. Details about the activities, events, joining info and photos.
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Society and Culture Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Society and Culture
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Society and Culture Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "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) Society and Culture
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Society and Culture The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Society and Culture
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Society and Culture "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Society and Culture
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "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) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Society and Culture
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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 Society and Culture "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Society and Culture
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Society and Culture If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Society and Culture
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Society and Culture
