BBC News: Nudists told where to bare all - Nudists who use a popular beach in Gwynedd will soon find themselves limited to the amount of seashore they can enjoy.
BBC News: Pop fans feel festival heat - Up to 100,000 revellers are enjoying the Glastonbury Festival (includes report on Vincent Bethell's protest).
BBC News: Nude protesters scale new heights - Naked protesters are arrested after one climbed a lamp-post outside London's Royal Courts of Justice, to the bemusement of hundreds of tourists.
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) News Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig News
"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 The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. News In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) News
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec News Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz News
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw News Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge News
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban 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 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad News A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx News
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli News It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" News
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller News "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous News
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester News "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley News
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) May you never leave your marriage alive. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin News If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson News
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos News The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne News
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer News Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming 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 If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill News
