Council of the Isles of Scilly - Contact address and telephone numbers and socio economic information on the island together with details of their six councillors.
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Government We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Government
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Government To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "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) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Government
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "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) Government "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Government
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Government Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) 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 Government
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Government Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Government
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Government blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Government
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Government "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Government An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
"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 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Government Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Government
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Government The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "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) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Government
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom 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 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Government blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Government
