Reading-Düsseldorf Association - Voluntary organisation devoted to promoting and developing friendship between the peoples of Reading and Düsseldorf in Germany.
Reading Toy Run - Annual charity motorcycle ride organised by Reading Christian Bikers attracting hundreds of bikers from all aspects of the biking fraternity to obtain toys for distribution by Barnardo's.
Katesgrove Residents' Association - Katesgrove is an area of Reading immediately to the south-west of the Town Centre. Information on local organisations, groups and events.
Reading Single Homeless Project - A charity supplying affordable housing to the homeless. Includes how to apply and a tenants' forum.
Include - National charity dedicated solely to tackling the crisis of social exclusion among young people. Mission is to secure the inclusion of all young people in full-time, mainstream education and training.
Julie Moore - Tarot reader, crystal healer and psychic. Brief details including contact information.
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Society and Culture "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Society and Culture
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) 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 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Society and Culture To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Society and Culture Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Society and Culture
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Society and Culture 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Society and Culture
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting 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 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Society and Culture In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Society and Culture
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Society and Culture The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Society and Culture "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Society and Culture "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
