Rotaract in the Thames Valley - Clubs for 18 to 29 year olds, this site covers the Thames Valley region including 8 clubs in Berkshire.
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason 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 He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Organisations Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain 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 There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Organisations
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Organisations "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Organisations
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Organisations The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Organisations
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Organisations
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Organisations He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Organisations
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Organisations "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Organisations
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Organisations cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Organisations
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Organisations Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Organisations
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Organisations The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Organisations
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason 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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Organisations Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Organisations
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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') The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Organisations He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Organisations
