Cumbernauld Allotments Association - History, and information on developments affecting this group. Members' notice board and meeting minutes included.
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Recreation and Sports
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Recreation and Sports blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Recreation and Sports
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Recreation and Sports It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Recreation and Sports
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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Recreation and Sports All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Recreation and Sports
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "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, Alice in Wonderland "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Recreation and Sports
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Recreation and Sports The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Recreation and Sports
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Recreation and Sports Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Recreation and Sports
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Recreation and Sports
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Recreation and Sports To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Recreation and Sports
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Recreation and Sports Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Recreation and Sports
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Recreation and Sports
