Fenland District Council - The Fens in the North East of the county. Profile, services and representatives.
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and 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 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Fenland District I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Fenland District
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Fenland District Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Fenland District
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Fenland District When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fenland District
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Fenland District "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Fenland District
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Fenland District Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Fenland District
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fenland District The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Fenland District
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Fenland District I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Fenland District
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins 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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Fenland District Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Fenland District
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Fenland District Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Fenland District
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Fenland District "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Fenland District
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Fenland District To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Fenland District
