Wiltshire Independent Group - Independent councillors in the county, affiliated to the Wessex Regional Group of Independents; includes links of Wiltshire and local government interest.
Robert Key - MP for Salisbury - Information on Robert's political views, local information regarding Salisbury and the Conservative Party, Robert's biography, speeches and links to other political Web sites.
Devizes Conservative Association - Biography of local MP Michael Ancram and details of his work for the constituency. Site includes a Diary of association events and a list of association officers / local MEPs / local councillors.
Dr Caroline Jackson - Contact details and constituency information for the Member of the European Parliament for Wiltshire North and Bath.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Politics Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Politics
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Politics The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Politics
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Politics If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Politics
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Politics blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Politics
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Politics "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Politics
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Politics It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Politics
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "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) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Politics "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Politics
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 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman 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 feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Politics Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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 Politics
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Politics "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Politics "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Politics
