Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9) - The exact wording of the 'section 28' part of the Act, in Part IV Miscellaneous and General. From Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Legislation The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Legislation
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Legislation The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Legislation
"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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Legislation Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Legislation
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Legislation 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Legislation
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Legislation "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "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) Legislation
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Legislation Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Legislation
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Legislation It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "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 Legislation
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli 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 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Legislation Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Legislation
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Legislation Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Legislation
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Legislation Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Legislation
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Legislation There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Legislation
