Samar Methodist Church - Near Green Island, Jersey. Britain's southernmost Christian congregation. Church details, facilities, diary and location map, links. In the Jersey circuit.
The Gap - Christian youth organisation. Details the activites and events and includes a forum.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Society and Culture Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Society and Culture
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Society and Culture
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Society and Culture Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Society and Culture
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Society and Culture Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Society and Culture
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Society and Culture "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Society and Culture Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder 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
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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Society and Culture Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Society and Culture
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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Society and Culture
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Society and Culture Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Society and Culture
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Society and Culture Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
