St John Ambulance - National site containing listings of all local organisations and the group's work.
Clacton St John's Ambulance - Site run by volunteers working at Clacton branch, includes details of activities and events.
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) St John Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender St John It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) St John
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton 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 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince St John Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) St John
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost St John Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry 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 St John
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry St John Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making St John
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign St John I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) 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 St John
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "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) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr St John Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "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) St John
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. St John Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) St John
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald St John Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland St John
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken St John Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde St John
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' St John To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli St John
