Nantwich Flower Club - Photo album, event listing and member information for the flower arranging club.
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain 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 Society and Culture He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Society and Culture
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Society and Culture The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Society and Culture
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Society and Culture
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Society and Culture Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Society and Culture
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Society and Culture Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Society and Culture We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Society and Culture
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 A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Society and Culture
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Society and Culture "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Society and Culture
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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 Society and Culture
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 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 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Society and Culture The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Society and Culture
