BIBBA - British Isles Bee Breeders Association - Originally founded in 1964 for the conservation, restoration, study, selection and improvement of native and near native bees of Britain and Ireland.
British Dragonfly Society - Encouraging the study and conservation of dragonflies and their natural habitats, especially in the United Kingdom.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Invertebrates "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Invertebrates
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Invertebrates The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Invertebrates
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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 Invertebrates When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Invertebrates
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Invertebrates Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Invertebrates
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Invertebrates Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Invertebrates
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Invertebrates "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Invertebrates
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Invertebrates Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Invertebrates
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Invertebrates "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Invertebrates
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Invertebrates "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Invertebrates
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Invertebrates "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Invertebrates
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Invertebrates Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Invertebrates
