USDAW - North West Kent (H038) - Local USDAW branch covering Wincanton, Snodland and surrounding areas, with contact details and event listings.
Mid Sussex USDAW Branch - Local USDAW union Branch covering Sussex Coast from Littlehampton to Brighton and inland from Pulborough to Burgess Hill. Includes branch news and events.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "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) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "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) Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "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) Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
