BBC Politics 97 - Political news and results from 1997, including Party Conferences, the General Election, and the Scottish and Welsh referendum campaigns.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) 1997 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 1997
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus 1997 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses 1997
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 1997 My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) 1997
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1997 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous 1997
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) 1997 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 1997
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain 1997 When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( 1997
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins 1997 Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent 1997
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) 1997 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... 1997
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 "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) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln 1997 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns 1997
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 1997 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 1997
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus 1997 blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball 1997
