Midlands Academy of Chinese Kung Fu - Lau Gar Kung Fu and kickboxing in Walsall, Aldridge, Willenhall, Sutton Coldfield and Brownhills. Includes news, history, photos and club details.
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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,
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Martial Arts All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Martial Arts
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha 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 "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Martial Arts I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Martial Arts
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Martial Arts What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Martial Arts
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Martial Arts There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Martial Arts
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Martial Arts Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Martial Arts
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Martial Arts A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Martial Arts
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope 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 Martial Arts I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Martial Arts
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Martial Arts I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Martial Arts
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca 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 Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Martial Arts We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Martial Arts
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Martial Arts Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Martial Arts
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 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 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Martial Arts The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Martial Arts
