Halewood Labour Party - MP and MEP links, and a page on their work in the community.
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Politics "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Politics
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Politics Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Politics
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Politics Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Politics
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Politics I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Politics
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Politics This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Politics
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Politics "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Politics
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Politics It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Politics
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Politics Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Politics
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire 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" "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Politics Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde 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. When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Politics
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Politics He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Politics
