Dawdon Residents Association - Seeks to address issues around the improvement of conditions, amenities, environment and security within the ward.
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Easington District What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Easington District
"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, The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Easington District Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Easington District
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries 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 Easington District The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Easington District
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung 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 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Easington District A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Easington District
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Easington District 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 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 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Easington District
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) 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 "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Easington District Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Easington District
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Easington District Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Easington District
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. 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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Easington District 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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Easington District
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "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, A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Easington District 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 Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Easington District
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 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 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Easington District In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Easington District
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Easington District We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Easington District
