icLiverpool - Controversial Cup set to run - Jennifer Wildman, Liverpool Echo. Backgrounder on the traditions of the cup and the views of various people who attend the Waterloo Cup for very different reasons.
UK Telegraph - More bark than bite - Whippet coursing in Gloucestershire, UK under the auspices of the National Whippet Coursing Club. Adam Edwards.
Observer Sport: Hare today, gone tomorrow - Will Buckley. Attending a coursing trial in East Anglis, the author decides it is an acquired taste, not particularly for him, but that is no reason to outlaw it.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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to bet.
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
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proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic News and Media The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) News and Media
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James News and Media "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates News and Media
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) News and Media "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper News and Media If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 News and Media
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie 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.
-- blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre News and Media There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show 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 News and Media
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." News and Media The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder News and Media
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce News and Media "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST News and Media
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber News and Media There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game News and Media
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) News and Media He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) 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 News and Media
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. 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 See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield News and Media "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) News and Media
