Too Yellow to be Green - Green Party argues that the Libdems' policies, voting records and actions in office undermine Libdem claims to be 'green'.
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Opposing Views The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opposing Views
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Opposing Views Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper 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 Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Opposing Views
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Opposing Views The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Opposing Views
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) 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 Opposing Views Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Opposing Views
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Opposing Views Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Opposing Views
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Opposing Views The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain 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 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Opposing Views
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Opposing Views When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Opposing Views
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Opposing Views The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Opposing Views
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Opposing Views The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Opposing Views
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Opposing Views If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Opposing Views
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Opposing Views blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Opposing Views
