UK Reptiles Online - A site for those in the UK and Europe with an interest in reptiles and amphibians. Free classified ads, listings of herp traders, clubs and societies, vets, upcoming events and reptile links.
Crystal Palace Reptiles - Supplier of snakes, lizards, tarantulas, frogs, insects plus tips and chat forums.
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles - Diverse program of publications, meetings, and other activities of interest to herpetologists in zoos, museums, universities and the general public.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Reptiles and Amphibians Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Reptiles and Amphibians
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Reptiles and Amphibians For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Reptiles and Amphibians
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Reptiles and Amphibians You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 Reptiles and Amphibians
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Reptiles and Amphibians Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Reptiles and Amphibians
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 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Reptiles and Amphibians When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Reptiles and Amphibians
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Reptiles and Amphibians When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Reptiles and Amphibians
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Reptiles and Amphibians I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Reptiles and Amphibians
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Reptiles and Amphibians Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi 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 Reptiles and Amphibians
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Reptiles and Amphibians Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Reptiles and Amphibians
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Reptiles and Amphibians Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Reptiles and Amphibians
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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Reptiles and Amphibians 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 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Reptiles and Amphibians
