National Association of Local Councils - Represents the 10,000 community, parish and town councils in England and Wales. The links page contains a list of parish, town and community councils, sorted by county.
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Parish and Town "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Parish and Town
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Parish and Town Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Parish and Town
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Parish and Town "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Parish and Town
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Parish and Town "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Parish and Town
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. 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' "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Parish and Town "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Parish and Town
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "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 >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Parish and Town If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Parish and Town
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Parish and Town Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Parish and Town
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Parish and Town "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Parish and Town
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Parish and Town May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Parish and Town
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Parish and Town "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Parish and Town
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Parish and Town I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Parish and Town
