Old Basing Parish Council - The parish council for Old Basing, a historic village east of Basingstoke.
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Government "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Government
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Government Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Government
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Government Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Government The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Government
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Government If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Government
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "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) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Government Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Government
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Government The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Government
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Government The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Government
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "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) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Government When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Government
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Government Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Government
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Government Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Government
