The No Campaign - Europe yes, euro no campaign against Britain replacing the pound sterling with the euro. Includes press releases, articles and the latest news.
BBC News - In Depth: The UK Euro Question - Presents the latest news and analysis about the euro debate plus background and history. Includes the case for each side, the five tests, how the euro is doing and the coming referendum.
The Euro Debate - Background to Britain's possible forthcoming referendum on joining the European Single Currency. Description of the development towards economic and monetary union, plus links to other resources and organisations.
Yes Campaign - British internet campaign for the Euro. Includes briefings, online letter writing tool to any UK newspaper, and other e-campaign resources.
The Euro Debate - Comment and articles on whether the UK should join the Euro.
Single Currency.co.uk - News, information and discussion on whether Britain should join the Euro.
Euro Know - An anti-euro site, focusing on the potential problems for Britain.
Dear Aunty - An essay to the author's aunt on why the EMU is a bad idea, both in abstract and addressing specific points of the Maastricht Treaty.
Keep The Pound - Why Britain should never join the European single currency. Also an excellent resource for links to other pro-pound and pro-Britain websites.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Euro When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Euro When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Euro
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Euro Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Euro
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Euro 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 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 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Euro
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "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, Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Euro They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Euro
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Euro A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Euro
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Euro I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Euro
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Euro The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Euro
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Euro Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Euro
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Euro Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Euro
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Euro If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Euro
