The Things They Say - Banned

The following quotes were removed from my column in The People newspaper for April, May and June 2003



`Live today as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn today as if you were to live forever.' - Gandhi


`In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific `truth', the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.' - Marcel Proust, writer


`Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.' - Goethe


`A man's got to do his own growing no matter how tall his father is.' - From the film `Gun Fury'


`There have never been so many wars as in the kingdom of Christ.' - Montesquieu


`Governments change; the lies stay the same.' - James Bond (secret agent)


`The relationship of a journalist to a politician should be the same as that of a dog to a lamp-post.' - H.L.Mencken, writer


`Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.' - Henry David Thoreau, writer and philosopher


`An eye for an eye will eventually make us all blind.' - Gandhi


`People should not attempt to change history. It is the job of history to change people.' - John Le Carre


`Money is a good thing to have. It frees from you doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.' - Groucho Marx


`If I contracted cancer, I would never go to a conventional cancer treatment centre. Cancer victims who live far from such centres have a chance.' - French cancer specialist


`We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.' - T.S.Eliot


Copyright Vernon Coleman 2003