Cllr Andrew Stunell MP - Representing the constituency, this Liberal Democrat reports on local campaigns and wider national issues. Lists contact details and associated links.
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Government Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Government
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Government You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Government
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Government "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Government
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Government Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Government
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) Government Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Government
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Government An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Government
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Government "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Government
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Government As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Government
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Government 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) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Government
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Government "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Government
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Government Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Government
