Kirkby Times - Opinion on local news and issues, such as the Sonae factory controversy. Also includes a section of local memories.
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Society and Culture And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Society and Culture The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Society and Culture
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Society and Culture "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Society and Culture
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Society and Culture Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Society and Culture
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Society and Culture
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture 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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Society and Culture Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Society and Culture
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain 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, Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 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 Society and Culture "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based 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 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture
