Shaun Woodward - Labour MP for St Helens South. Biography, activities, speeches, articles, and press releases.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Politics You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Politics
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Politics In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Politics
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Politics Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Politics
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Politics He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Politics
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Politics Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 Politics
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Politics "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Politics
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Politics "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Politics
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Politics Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Politics
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Politics The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Politics
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Politics People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Politics
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Politics UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Politics
