Tim Collins - MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale - Comprehensive site with details of local campaigns, the Common Sense Revolution, a constituency profile, press releases, and Collins' biography and contact details.
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Politics "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Politics
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous .. 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 Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Politics The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Politics
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Politics The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Politics
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Politics Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Politics
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Politics Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Politics
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Politics I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Politics
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Politics "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Politics Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Politics
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Politics Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics
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 Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Politics
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Politics What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Politics
