Chelmsford Borough Council - Chelmsford Borough Council provides Local Government, Leisure, Environmental, Business, Planning, Technical and Housing services to the Borough of Chelmsford, England.
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Government Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Government
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Government "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Government
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Government
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac 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 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Government Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Government
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 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Government I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Government
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Government "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Government
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Government The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Government
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Government blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Government
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Government
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Government A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Government
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Government A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Government
