Idmiston Parish Council - Local Parish Council, also covering Porton and Gomeldon. Information on council, village and local activities.
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Idmiston Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Idmiston
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Idmiston Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Idmiston
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "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) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Idmiston Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Idmiston
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Idmiston Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Idmiston
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Idmiston May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Idmiston
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "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) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Idmiston The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Idmiston
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Idmiston After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Idmiston
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Idmiston Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Idmiston
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Idmiston "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Idmiston
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Idmiston "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Idmiston
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Idmiston "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Idmiston
