Compassion in World Farming, Ireland - Campaigns for an end to factory farming, live farm animal exports and the genetic engineering of farm animals. With news, campaign notes, how to support and a membership form.
Wildlife Rescue Northern Ireland - Independent voluntary charity that responds to sick or injured wild animals. Includes information on making a donation.
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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-- Moliere Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Animal Welfare
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Animal Welfare "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Animal Welfare
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 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Animal Welfare The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Animal Welfare
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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-- Edward Chilton When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Animal Welfare "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Animal Welfare
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Animal Welfare And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Animal Welfare
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Animal Welfare "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "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..." ( 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 Animal Welfare
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey 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,
Animal Welfare Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Animal Welfare
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "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) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Animal Welfare Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Animal Welfare
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Animal Welfare I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Animal Welfare
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Animal Welfare "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Animal Welfare
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Animal Welfare 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 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Animal Welfare
