Railfuture - Independent organisation campaigning for better rail services for both passengers and freight.
Railwatch - Home of the Railway Development Society, which presses for greater use of, and investment in, the UK railway system.
Trainpain - Assists travellers to find and reach the appropriate department to deal with their complaints.
Waverley Route Trust - The Waverley Route Trust is a not for profit NGO campaigning for a Borders Rail link to Edinburgh.
Save Our Station - Save Histon Station - Campaign to restore Histon Station to its former glory, and protect it from demolition for Cambridgeshire County Council's Guided Busway.
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Campaigns "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Campaigns
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Campaigns You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Campaigns
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Campaigns I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Campaigns
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Campaigns A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Campaigns
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Campaigns Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Campaigns
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud 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. May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Campaigns True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Campaigns
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Campaigns "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Campaigns
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Campaigns I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 Campaigns
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. 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 Campaigns Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Campaigns
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Campaigns In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Campaigns
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. 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 The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Campaigns Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Campaigns
