James Tumbridge - Norwich North - Biography of a Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman, his newsletters and a list of his campaigns.
Orlando Fraser - North Devon - The Conservative prospective candidate sets out his priorities for North Devon and comments on local issues affecting this key marginal seat.
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle 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 same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Candidates "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) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Candidates
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Candidates Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Candidates
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Candidates Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Candidates
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Candidates "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Candidates
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Candidates 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 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Candidates
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Candidates Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Candidates
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Candidates A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Candidates
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Candidates Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Candidates
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Candidates A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Candidates
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Candidates I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Candidates
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Candidates It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Candidates
