3rd Rhos-on-Sea Scout Group - Information about recent and coming events, the scout headquarters and the individual component groups. Includes an online copy of the group's magazine.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Society and Culture You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Society and Culture
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin 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 Society and Culture
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Society and Culture "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Society and Culture
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Society and Culture
"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) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Society and Culture Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "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 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Society and Culture
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Society and Culture The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Society and Culture "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Society and Culture
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart 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 Society and Culture The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Society and Culture
