Adamsdown Liberal Democrat Focus Team - News, action and council decisions from Cllr Nigel Howells, Cllr John Dixon and their team in Adamsdown, Cardiff.
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
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Council Groups I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Council Groups
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Council Groups If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard 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 Council Groups
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Council Groups Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Council Groups
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Council Groups If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Council Groups
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Council Groups "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Council Groups
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) 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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "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) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Council Groups I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Council Groups
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Council Groups "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Council Groups
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Council Groups Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Council Groups
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Council Groups "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Council Groups
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 Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Council Groups The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Council Groups
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Council Groups >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Council Groups
