Stephen Hesford MP - Labour MP for Wirral West. A brief profile, and contact information.
Ben Chapman MP - Labour MP for Wirral South. Includes contacts, and information about his activities.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Politics "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Politics
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Politics Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Politics
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Politics Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Politics Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Politics
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Politics Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Politics
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Politics "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Politics
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Politics 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 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Politics
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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.
-- Winston Churchill Politics "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Politics
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Politics The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Politics
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Spinster: A bachelor's wife. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Politics the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Politics
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Politics The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
