Make Votes Count - The campaign to win the referendum on changing the way we elect our Members of Parliament, with information, campaign news and resources for activists.
Save Democracy - Campaign to prevent abuse of the voting system, including fraud and intimidation.
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"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Electoral Reform Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Electoral Reform
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Electoral Reform The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Electoral Reform
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "'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) Electoral Reform "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Electoral Reform
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Electoral Reform I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Electoral Reform
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Electoral Reform 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 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Electoral Reform
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Electoral Reform "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 Electoral Reform
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein 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 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Electoral Reform To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Electoral Reform
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Electoral Reform The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Electoral Reform
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Electoral Reform "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "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) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Electoral Reform
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford 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 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Electoral Reform "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Electoral Reform
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Electoral Reform Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Electoral Reform
