Wellington Town Council - Provides details of the council's budget and meetings, list of councillors and their election results. Includes a guide to the town together with business and community contacts.
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Wellington "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Wellington
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Wellington The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Wellington
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Wellington "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Wellington
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Wellington The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Wellington
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Wellington This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Wellington
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Wellington "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Wellington
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Wellington If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Wellington
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Wellington Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wellington
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Wellington "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Wellington
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wellington "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Wellington
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Wellington I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Wellington
