Weymouth and Portland Borough Council - The local council that covers both the Weymouth and Portland areas. Details included are for residents and visitors to the area.
Councils Gone Mad - Site critical of strict parking limitations in the area.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Weymouth and Portland Borough Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Weymouth and Portland Borough
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Weymouth and Portland Borough "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Weymouth and Portland Borough
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Weymouth and Portland Borough Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law 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 Weymouth and Portland Borough
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Weymouth and Portland Borough Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Weymouth and Portland Borough
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Weymouth and Portland Borough "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Weymouth and Portland Borough
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Weymouth and Portland Borough The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Weymouth and Portland Borough
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Weymouth and Portland Borough Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Weymouth and Portland Borough
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Weymouth and Portland Borough Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Weymouth and Portland Borough
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Weymouth and Portland Borough I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Weymouth and Portland Borough
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Weymouth and Portland Borough 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 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Weymouth and Portland Borough
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Weymouth and Portland Borough "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) Weymouth and Portland Borough
