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Isabelle Vets - For local veterinary information, news and advice on health care in cats, dogs, rabbits, horses, exotic pets and farm animals in Guernsey.
Guernsey Image Library - Micro site with 600 pictures of the Island. Includes downloadable graphics and ordering service.
Chernobyl Children Life Line - Raising funds to finance and arrange for children to visit the Bailiwick. Project updates and contact details.
Digimap - The definitive map of Guernsey with links to the Guernsey Geographical Information Service (GGIS) products, training and services.
Guernsey Information and Internet services - Guernsey information and Internet services on and about the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Services include a directory of Guernsey web site links.
Guernsey Airport Met Observatory. - Site of the Guernsey Meteorological Office, Weather and climate information, yesterday's weather, history, services.
Gourmet Islands of Guernsey - Information about restaurants and accommodation.
The World Factbook - Facts, figures and details on the Bailiwick of Guernsey from the Central Intelligence Agency
Guernsey Postcards - A large collection of picture postcards of Guernsey, mostly from the early 1900s, together with photographs of the same views today.
Guernsey Amateur Radio Index - Amateur radio activity in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands
Guernsey Forums - Discussion forum for anyone with an interest in Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm.
Clos du Valle WI - Women's institute based in the Vale and a member of the Guernsey Federation of Women's Institutes. Contains details about the Institute and its activities and location in Guernsey.
Town Centre Partnership - St.Peter Port redevelopment working party.
The Guernsey Independent Mint - Offer gold and silver bullion coinage. Gallery of coins with pricing subject to World gold prices. Contact details.
Island Opinion - Guernsey and Jersey specific online polling system. Allows sign up and describes concept and survey types.
Davis Weather - Home based weather station results. Wind speed, barometric readings, wind speed and mean averages.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Guernsey If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) 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 Guernsey "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Guernsey He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Guernsey Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Guernsey Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Guernsey Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Guernsey Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Guernsey blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a 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 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 "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Guernsey You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Guernsey Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Guernsey Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Guernsey Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde Guernsey Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th Guernsey I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Guernsey I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Guernsey He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Guernsey What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Guernsey Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Guernsey When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Guernsey Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Guernsey All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Guernsey
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