JC's World 2004 - Personal site, bringing together interests in West Bromwich Albion Football Club, music, and medal of honour.
St. Andrew's Church - Includes events calendar, service times, photographs, details of church groups, and a history of the parish.
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "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) Society and Culture Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Society and Culture
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire 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 Society and Culture
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Society and Culture If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 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 Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Society and Culture
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 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a rest period between romances. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Society and Culture Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Society and Culture
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 Society and Culture 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 Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Society and Culture
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Society and Culture The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Society and Culture I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Society and Culture Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl 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 Society and Culture
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Society and Culture "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Society and Culture
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Society and Culture We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer 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 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
