Birkenhead Conservative Association - Comments on national and local issues, and provides a history of the constituency. Also includes a photo gallery of the local sights.
Rt. Hon Frank Field MP - Labour MP for Birkenhead. Site includes contact information, press releases, articles, and speech summaries.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Politics The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Politics
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Politics Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Politics
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Politics I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Politics What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Politics
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Politics
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Politics
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "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 whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Politics Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Politics
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Politics Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Politics
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Politics If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Politics
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Politics "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Politics
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Politics In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Politics
