Rushmoor Borough Council - Covers the area around Aldershot and Farnborough. Provides information on the area, community and the Council.
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Rushmoor Borough Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Rushmoor Borough
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Rushmoor Borough Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Rushmoor Borough
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Rushmoor Borough "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Rushmoor Borough
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Rushmoor Borough One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Rushmoor Borough
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Rushmoor Borough I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Rushmoor Borough
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Rushmoor Borough Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Rushmoor Borough
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Rushmoor Borough "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "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) Rushmoor Borough
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Rushmoor Borough Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Rushmoor Borough
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Rushmoor Borough "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Rushmoor Borough
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Rushmoor Borough Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rushmoor Borough
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Rushmoor Borough The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Rushmoor Borough
