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Courage Guernsey - Community site for gay people in guernsey.
Parsons Family - Alyth and Bob Parsons. Detail and interests include healing, meditation, feng shui, Reiki, crystals & vegetarian food.
Take a look - Old postcards of Guernsey, Guernsey news, Guernsey pictures, Humour
Captain William Le Lacheur - Guernsey sea captain and trader. Site provides links to resources, images and ship manifests and includes a discussion forum.
A Child's War - Book review by Molly Bihet. The German Occupation through the eyes of a child.
Constitution of Guernsey - 800 year Celebration - Provides an overview of the island's history. Includes events fro 2004 and a century-by-century timeline of historical events.
Bailiwick of Guernsey Scouts Association - Official site of the Scout Association.
Foote Family - History details including the names Ozanne, Bisson, Falla, Priaulx, Marquand, Jamouneau and a section on Guernsey butchers.
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Society and Culture There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Society and Culture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Society and Culture Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Society and Culture Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Society and Culture "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard "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 Society and Culture I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford "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 Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Society and Culture Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Society and Culture blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Society and Culture I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Society and Culture "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Society and Culture This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Society and Culture Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Society and Culture I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Society and Culture If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou 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 The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Society and Culture I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire Society and Culture Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
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