Hurst Gospel Hall - Details of meetings, children's club and contact information.
1st Hurst Rangers - Provides programme, resources, jump station, camping, fundraising and contact details for this village group.
St.Nicholas Church - C of E parish church. Details of services, history and contacts.
Southview Respite Care - A family home providing short breaks for the elderly. Location, accommodation details and contacts.
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-- Richard Mitchell, from Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Society and Culture
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Society and Culture Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- Oscar Wilde "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
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-- Gerald Holton Society and Culture
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Society and Culture
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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- Bill Hirst "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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-- John Renmerde Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Society and Culture
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
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-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Society and Culture
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Society and Culture If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Society and Culture
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Society and Culture I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Society and Culture Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
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