Barrow Scouts Home - Basic information and some photographs of this local group.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Barrow upon Soar Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Barrow upon Soar
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Barrow upon Soar It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Barrow upon Soar
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Man and wife make one fool. Barrow upon Soar Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Barrow upon Soar
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Barrow upon Soar Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "... 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) Barrow upon Soar
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Barrow upon Soar "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Barrow upon Soar There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Barrow upon Soar
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Barrow upon Soar And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Barrow upon Soar
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Barrow upon Soar Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Barrow upon Soar
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Barrow upon Soar I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Barrow upon Soar
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Barrow upon Soar 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 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Barrow upon Soar
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Barrow upon Soar "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) 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 Barrow upon Soar
