Marwell Zoological Society Photographic Group - Membership open only to the Zoological Society, but invites contact with other clubs. Details of meetings and activities, with a gallery of pictures of animals.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Photography Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Photography
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Photography The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Photography
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Photography It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Photography
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands 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 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Photography This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Photography
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Photography I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Photography
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Photography 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 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Photography
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry 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 Photography
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Photography Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Photography
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Photography Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Photography
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Photography Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Photography
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Photography Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Photography
