SCAHD: League Against Cruel Sports - LACS campaigns and lobbies politicians against hunting with hounds, shooting, falconry, snaring, hare coursing, terrier work and the Grand National horse race. Neutral on angling because different people take different positions on it. Site includes news and politics, events, wildlife sanctuary, membership information, online shop and job vacancies.
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "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) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Campaign Groups If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Campaign Groups
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Campaign Groups Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Campaign Groups
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Campaign Groups "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Campaign Groups
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Campaign Groups "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "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 "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) Campaign Groups
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Campaign Groups Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Campaign Groups
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Campaign Groups "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Campaign Groups
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Campaign Groups They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Campaign Groups
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Campaign Groups "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Campaign Groups
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 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 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Campaign Groups "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Campaign Groups
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Campaign Groups Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Campaign Groups
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Campaign Groups A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Campaign Groups
