Greater London Authority: London Partnerships Register - Official government site contains full information about registration, its conditions and requirements, the ceremony and schedule of dates. FAQ and downloadable documents.
Civil Partnerships Bill (HL) - Amendments - List of amendments tabled in the House of Lords to the Bill introduced in the House of Lords on 30th March 2004 and published as HL Bill 53.
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume 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 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Legislation "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Legislation
"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 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Legislation "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Legislation
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Legislation It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Legislation
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Legislation "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Legislation
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Legislation Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Legislation
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Legislation If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Legislation
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Legislation Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Legislation
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Legislation A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Legislation
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Legislation "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Legislation
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Legislation Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Legislation
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Legislation Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Legislation
