Highways Agency - Responsible for maintaining and developing England's road network. Site includes an interactive roadmap of England providing information on roadworks and expected delays.
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 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 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Transport Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Transport
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Transport I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Man and wife make one fool. Transport
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Transport "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Transport
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Transport If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Transport
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Transport The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Transport
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Transport The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Transport
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T 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 "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Transport It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Transport
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) 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 We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Transport 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 Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Transport
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Transport Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Transport
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Transport I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Transport
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Transport Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Transport
