English Regions - Map of the 'suggested' Regions of England circa 1917 contrasted with current European Regional constituency boundaries. Includes details of European football clubs and links to their sites.
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 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Regions America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Regions
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Regions The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regions
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Regions Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Regions
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Regions "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Regions
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Regions The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Regions
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Regions Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Regions
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Regions "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Regions
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Regions The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Regions
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Regions The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Regions
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Regions They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Regions
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "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) Regions My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Regions
