Bow Group - Includes details of the Conservative think tank on the left of the party and its recent research papers.
Conservatives Intouch - News headlines from Conservative Associations around the country, plus a lively discussion forum. They also offer a service that allow local associations to update their web sites easily via the web.
Conservative Democratic Alliance - Traditional Tories bemoan the rise of political correctness in Britain as a whole, and the Conservative Party leadership in particular.
Back IDS - A group of supporters of the former leader, campaigning for the continuance of his policies under his successor.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Supporters Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Supporters
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb 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. Supporters Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Supporters
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Supporters "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Supporters
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Supporters It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Supporters
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Supporters The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Supporters
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 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 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Supporters The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Supporters
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Supporters blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Supporters
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger 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 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Supporters She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Supporters
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Supporters If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Supporters
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Supporters 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 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Supporters
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Supporters I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Supporters
