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Plymouth 2020 Partnership - A Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) of the public, private, voluntary and community sectors, dedicated to transforming the quality of life in the city. Includes sections on strategy, action plan, performance targets, news items and contact information.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Plymouth There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Plymouth The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky Plymouth It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson Plymouth Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Plymouth "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Plymouth I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Plymouth The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Plymouth Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "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) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Plymouth "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) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Plymouth "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Plymouth I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Plymouth Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Plymouth The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Plymouth What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower 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 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Plymouth Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Plymouth Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Plymouth I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Plymouth If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Plymouth Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Plymouth If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Plymouth I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Plymouth
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