Liberal Democrats - Offers a quick look at the Liberal Democrats work in the constituency.
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Government Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Government
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Government "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Government
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Government "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Government
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Government >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Government
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Government "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) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Government
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Government Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Government
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Government "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Government
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Government Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Government
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Government "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Government
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Government "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Government
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Government When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Government
