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Thought for The Day
If you have a thought for the day, then
please let us have it.
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| Mon 5th Mar |
It isn't pollution that's
harming the environment.
It's the impurities in our air and
water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle |
| Sun 4th Mar |
A low voter turnout is an
indication of fewer
people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle |
| Sat 3rd Mar |
You can go a long way with
a smile.
You can go a lot further with a smile and a gun.
Al Capone |
| Fri 2nd Mar |
Those are my principles.
If you don't like them I have others.
Groucho Marx |
| Thurs 1 Mar |
The person who has no
opinion will seldom be wrong. Russian Proverb |
| Wed 28th Feb |
Whenever you find you are
on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain [(1835-1910) |
| Tues 27th Feb |
If you can't describe what
you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. Edwards Deming |
| Mo 26th Feb |
The secret of life is
honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Marx
...................................
Groucho(1890-1977) |
| Sun 25th Feb |
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
(Saint Augustine (354-430))
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| Sat 24th Feb |
Our society is run by insane people for insane
objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I
think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's
what's insane about it.
John Lennon |
| Fri 23rd Feb |
Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is
important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the
weasel.
(Homer) |
| Thurs 22nd Feb |
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the
possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or
sending our children to war.
(Tony Blair) Had this quote before, but it's such a
good one I thought it should be repeated and repeated and....... |
| Wed 21st Feb |
How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I
learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember
when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
(Homer) |
| Tues 20th Feb |
Education. Education. Education. (Tony Blair) |
| Mon 19th Feb |
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge
in adversity.
(Aristotle) |
| Sun 18th Feb |
A return to first principles in a republic is
sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has
such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the
wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
(Machiavelli) |
| Sat 17th Feb |
"I speak Esparanto like a native." (Spike Miligan) |
| Fri 16th Feb |
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree."
Spike Miligan) |
| Thurs 15th Feb |
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a
succession of happy days.
(Max Planck) |
| Wed 14th feb |
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I
was.
Muhammad Ali |
| Tues 13th Feb |
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did
at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
|
| Mon 12th Feb |
WE HAD A DEATH PACT
I HAVE TO KEEP MY HALF OF THE BARGAIN
PLEASE BURY ME
PTO
NEXT TO MY BABY
BURY ME IN MY LEATHER JACKET,
JEANS AND MOTOR CYCLE BOOTS
GOODBYE
(Sid Vicious' suicide note) |
| Sun 11th Feb |
If TV has taught me anything, it's that miracles always happen to poor
kids at Christmas. It happened to Tiny Tim, it happened to Charlie
Brown, it happened to The Smurfs, and it's going to happen to us.
(Simpson Bart) |
| Sat 10th Feb |
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it.
Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
(Homer..................Simpson) |
| Fri 9th Feb |
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what
it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
(Salvador Dali) |
| Thurs 8th Feb |
Operator! Give me the number for 911!
(Homer..................Simpson) |
| Wed 7th Feb |
I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure
of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize
confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of
reality.
(Salvador Dali) |
| Tues 6th feb |
I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember
their names.
(Za Za Gabor) |
| Mon 5th Feb |
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars.
The rest I just squandered.
(George Best) |
| Sun 4th Feb |
This is a group of people I used to go walking
with. (long pause) That's me on the left. (even longer pause) On the
right is the woman I married, Audrey. (very long pause, speaker
looks at shoes) Which just goes to show that danger lurks where you
least expect it."
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| Sat 3rd Feb |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody
turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
(Marx Groucho) |
| Fri 2 Feb |
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been
haircuts.
Jim Morrison |
| Thurs 1 Feb |
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon |
| Wed 31 Jan |
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon |
| Tues 3n Jan |
Getting older is a fascinating thing. The older you
get, the older you want to get.
Keith Richards |
| Mon 29 Jan |
Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We
will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.
Liam Gallagher
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| Sun 28 Jan |
With every song that I write, I compare it to the
Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born
at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
Noel Gallagher |
| Sat 27 Jan |
It's a loser's emblem (swastika), because the Nazis
lost the war. It's ridiculous to suggest we are involved with fascists.
All my best friends are black, gay, Irish or criminals.
Johnny Rotten
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| Fri 26 Jan |
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but
that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
Ozzy Osbourne |
| Thurs 25 Jan |
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war,
we're really talking about peace.
George W. Bush
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| Wed 24 Jan |
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't
attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass
destruction.
George W. Bush
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| Tues 23 Jan |
For all who love freedom and peace, the world without
Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
George W. Bush
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| Mon 22 Jan |
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass
destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons
capability - that threat is real.
Tony Blair
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| Sun 21 jan |
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty
business.
Richard M. Nixon
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| Sat 20 Jan |
I am not a crook.
Richard M. Nixon |
| Fri 19 Jan |
As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in
the press whatsoever.
Richard M. Nixon
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| Thurs 18 Jan |
But I sleep soundly. The fact that people die because
of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
|
| Wed 17th Jan |
Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of
dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to
lust.
Ian Paisley |
| Tues 16th Jan |
I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone
who can tour without an album. (Rita
Rudner) |
| Mon 15th Jan |
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
(Charlie Chaplin) |
| Sun 14th Jan |
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can
prove that you don't need it.
(Bob Hope) |
| Sat 13th Jan |
"As God once said, and I think rightly..."
(Margaret Thatcher) |
| Fri 12th Jan |
"It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow."
(John Gummer) |
| Thurs 11th Jan |
A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really - we can leave them
at home - but I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders, I really
do. (Tony Blair) |
| Wed 10th Jan |
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we
may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children
to war. (Tony Blair) |
| Tues 9th Jan |
You are just going to have to have a little bit of patience,I have
absolutely no doubt at all that evidence will be found." (Tony Blair
on WMD in Iraq) |
| Mon 8th Jan |
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed,
quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think
it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."
(Barbara Ehrenreich) |
| Sun 7th Jan |
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more
about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know
about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the
Sermon on the Mount
(Omar N. Bradley) |
| Sat 6th Jan |
You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn't have had
the ten commandments. We'd have had the ten suggestions
(Christopher Bigsby and Malcolm Bradbury) |
| Fri 5th Jan |
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a
favourite device of persons with something to sell (H. L. Mencken)
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| Thurs 4th Jan |
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways
you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the
people you can, as long as ever you can
(John Wesley) |
| Wed 3rd Jan |
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an
agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure --
that is all that agnosticism means.
(Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.) |
| Tues 2nd Jan |
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900))
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| New Years Day |
A hangover is the Wrath of Grapes (Steinbeck John) |
| New Years Eve |
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt Dean Martin |
| Sat 30 Dec |
Rasputin murdered 30 dec 1916
Grigory Rasputin, a self-fashioned Russian
holy man, is murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his sway over the
royal family. In the early hours of December 30, 1916, a
group of nobles lured Rasputin to Yusupovsky Palace, where they
attempted to poison him. Seemingly unaffected by the large doses of
poison placed in his wine and food, he was finally shot at close range
and collapsed. A minute later he rose, beat one of his assailants, and
attempted to escape from the palace grounds, where he was shot again.
Rasputin, still alive, was then bound and tossed into a freezing river. |
| Fri 29 Dec |
 On the evening of
December 29, 1940, London suffers its most devastating air raid when
Germans firebomb the city. Hundreds of fires caused by the exploding
bombs engulfed areas of London, but firefighters showed a valiant
indifference to the bombs falling around them and saved much of the city
from destruction. The next day, a newspaper photo of St. Paul's
Cathedral standing undamaged amid the smoke and flames seemed to
symbolize the capital's unconquerable spirit during the Battle of
Britain.
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| Thurs 28 Dec |
What happened in History on Dec 28th
- 1948 Israel invades Egypt
- 1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel and invade South
Korea
- 1974 More than 5,200 people killed in Pakistan earthquake
- 1908 Over 100,000 people die when a massive earthquake and
resulting tsunami flattens Messina, Italy.
- 1957 The two-millionth Volkswagen was finished on this day in
1957
- 2006 Hullavington Ramblers hold a foxhunt
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| Wed 27 Dec |
What happened in History on Dec 27th
- 1822 Louis Pasteur born (inventor of rabies
vaccination and pasteurization)
- 0418 [Etalius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1741 Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
- 1825 First public railroad using steam locomotive
completed in England
- 1831 Charles Darwin sets sail in the Beagle on a 5 year
voyage to gather data for his theory of evolution
- 1836 Avalanche at Lewes in Sussex kills 8 people
- 1845 Ether first used in childbirth in US,
|
Boxing Day
St Stephens |
"Every time I see the Countryside Alliance and their contorted faces I
redouble my
determination to vote in the House of commons to abolish foxhunting
forever "John Prescot
Deputy Prime Minister |
| Christmas Day |
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white
man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark.Dick Gregory |
| Christmas Eve |
I heard the bells
on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Saturday
Dec |
Blessed is the season which engages the
whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie |
Friday
22nd Dec |
Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
Christina Rossetti |
Thursday
21st Dec |
5p. The hourly wage for sweatshop staff in Bangladesh who make
clothing for high street chains
Source: War on Want |
Wednesday
20th Dec |
£8.5m. The amount by which Roman Abramovich's fortune grew per day
during the past year. His fortune is estimated to be £10.8bn, £3bn more
than in 2005. Source: Money week |
| Tuesday 19th Dec |
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a
pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
Winston Churchill |
| Monday 18th Dec |
It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in
doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill |
| Sunday 17th Dec |
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of
any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde |
| Saturday 16th Dec |
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried”
|
| Friday 15th Dec |
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you
have their shoes.”
Jack Handey |
| Thursday 14th Dec |
“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed.
Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery
and all of their hopes & dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might
be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to
myself, 'It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come
true than to be selfish and worry about my liver.' ”
Jack Handey |
| Wednesday 13 Dec |
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next
week.”
General Patton |
| Tuesday 12 Dec |
“Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? You do all the work and
the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit” |
| Monday 11 Dec |
“The Americans will always do the right
thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives.”
(Sir Winston Churchill) |
| Sunday 10 Dec |
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to
keep your mouth shut. ~Ernest Hemingway |
| Saturday 9 Dec |
"I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business
to do intelligent work."
(Donald Rumsfeld when asked to estimate the
number of Iraqi insurgents while testifying before Congress) |
| Friday 8 Dec |
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall
deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so,
whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose
-- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose
to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British
from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no
probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be
silent; I see it, if you don't.'" -
(Abraham Lincoln) |
| Thursday 7 Dec |
Cricket civilizes people and creates good
gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be
a nation of gentlemen.
(Robert Mugabe) |
| Wed 6 Dec |
The countryside is where uncooked animals live (no attributation) |
| Tuesday 5 Dec |
If I
have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known
will go to heaven,
and very, very few persons.
— James Thurber
(score cats 3 dogs 2. ) |
| Monday 4 Dec |
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
(Albert Schweitzer)
(The score now is cats 3 dogs 1) |
| Sunday 3 Dec |
If you aim at nothing you'll hit it every time. (the sender does
not know the author of this quote) |
| Saturday 2 Dec |
If animals could speak the dog would be a a
blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of
never saying a word too much.
Mark Twain
(The score so far: Cats 2 dogs 1. . Any more?)) |
| Friday 1 Dec |
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags
his tail instead of his tongue
Anonymous
(That response was quick. Any more bids from the cat
lovers?) |
| Thursday 30th Nov |
Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot get 8 cats to pull a sledge
through snow (Author not provided but I suppose we had to have one
about cats eventually) |
| Wednesday 29th Nov |
To cure the British disease with socialism was like
trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher |
| Tuesday 28th Nov |
You cannot successfully lead a nation if all you have to offer is
a Guardian softened backbone and intellect, unless of course your
aspirations are set no higher than mediocrity.
Michael Heseltine
Deputy Prime Minister
|
| Monday 27th Nov |
I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very
hard. (Brian Clough on dealing with Roy Keane during a half
time team talk when Keane played for Forest)
|
| Sunday 26th Nov |
I think I am the special one.
Jose Mourinho
Manager of Chelsea FC |
| Saturday 25th Nov |
There is, by God's grace, an imeasurable difference between late and too
late.
~ Mme. Swetchine (1782 - 1857)
|
| Friday 24th Nov |
I never criticise referees and I'm not going to
change a habit for that prat. -
Ron Atkinson Football Manager |
| Thursday 23 Nov |
Coming from low demand, houses available, prices
falling. Depends from area to area, but if you go to the south, it's
exactly the opposite.
John Prescott |
| Wednesday 22nd Nov |
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is
because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Eric Cantona |
| Tuesday 21 Nov |
If everyone is thinking
alike, someone isn't thinking General
George Patton |
| Monday 20th Nov |
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
| Sunday 19th Nov |
£4bn. How much British housewives would earn
in total each year if they were paid market rates for their chores
(Money Week) |
| Saturday 18th Nov |
The Nine Rules of Badness
Taken from Little Wolfs "Book of Badness"
To see the rules click
(here) |
| Friday 17th Nov |
Gentlemen, you can't fight
in here! This is the War Room!
DR.
STRANGELOVE |
| Thursday 16th Nov |
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by
what we give Winston Churchill |
| Wednesday 15th Nov |
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your
friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
Israeli general & politician (1915 - 1981) |
| Tuesday 14th Nov |
Beware the noun adjective.
"I'll be terror overlord"
Gordon Brown, Chancellor of The Exchequer
|
| Monday 13th Nov |
The man who claims to be the boss in his own home will lie about other
things as well.
Source: (Amish |
| Sunday 12th Nov |
They
shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon |
Saturday
11th Nov |
$2.4m. The price paid by an anonymous buyer for
the ball used in the 2006 Football World Cup final |
Friday
10th Nov |
A Tom Morris quote on Philosophers
Socrates had a pupil named Plato. Plato had a pupil named
Aristotle. Aristotle had pupil named Alexander the Great.
|
Thursday
9th Nov |
Lange Haar und technik geht nicht
(German Saying) |
Wednesday
8th Nov |
 Do
not speak- unless it improves on silence.
(Buddhist saying) |
Tuesday
7th Nov |
 Treat
the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
Indian Proverb
|
Monday
6th Nov |
Cherokee Prayer:
Oh Great spirit,
grant that I may never find fault
with my neighbor until I have walked
the trail of life in his moccasins. |
Sunday
5th Nov |
Men have authority over women
because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they
spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient.
Q 4:34 |
Saturday
4th Nov |
People mistake tradition for religion. Men are
always saying, 'Women can't do that because of religion,' when in fact
it is only tradition. It's important for us to study so that we will
know the difference. --Enas al-Kald
(thanks for whoever sent this. Very appropriate at the moment) |
Friday
3rd Nov 06 |
 Man
is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ........
and the only one that can be mass produced by unskilled labour.
Werner von Braun |
Thursday
2nd Nov 06 |
Experience is an arch wherthrough gleams that
untraveled world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.
Tennyson |
Wednesday
1st Nov 06 |
Computers are useless. They can only give
you answers.
Pablo Picasso
|
Tuesday
31st Oct |
The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is
that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent
folks are so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
|
Monday
30th Oct 06 |
 The
order of things is very important, as depicted by this ancient
proverb taken from a Viking Warfighting Manual
"Always remember to
pillage BEFORE you burn"
 |
Sunday
29th Oct 06 |
A truly wise man never
plays leapfrog 
with a unicorn
. |
Saturday
28 Oct 06 |
If at first you don't succeed,
sky diving is not for you
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