Sandy - Community information. Includes history, and local services, news and events.
St Swithun's - Anglican parish church. Includes service times and how to arrange special services such as weddings. Also includes a brief history and contact information.
Timewarp Disco - Describes its equipment with FAQ, prices and advice on booking a disco.
Sandy Scouts Online - Dairy dates, events and details for Scouts and Beavers.
Sadie's Log - The adventures and journal of a lump of wood from The Cock Inn public house.
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Sandy "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Sandy
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Sandy Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Sandy
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Sandy Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Sandy
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Sandy Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Sandy
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Sandy blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Sandy
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sandy Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Sandy
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Sandy He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Sandy
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 Sandy We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Sandy
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Sandy Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Sandy
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Sandy Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Sandy
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Sandy Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sandy
