Soroptimist International Douglas - A worldwide organisation for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Provides a club and information about the Isle of Man.
St. Matthew's Parish Church - Anglocatholic, Forward in Faith Parish in the centre of Douglas. Information on history, tradition, music, calendar, seasonal devotions and location.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei 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 Society and Culture 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Society and Culture The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Society and Culture
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture 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 Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society and Culture
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Society and Culture
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Society and Culture "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Society and Culture "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Society and Culture
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Society and Culture We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Society and Culture
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
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