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Old Windsor Astrology  Club - Information on monthly meetings, astrology lessons and Saturday seminars held in Old Windsor for beginner and professional astrologers alike.
Rotaract Club of Windsor and Eton - Social and community action group for 18 to 29 year olds from the Windsor area.
The Windsor and Eton Society - An organisation that aims to enlarge the social and cultural life of the two towns, and to maintain and enhance their environment. Committee, history, programme, projects, newsletters.
Adam Afriyie for Windsor - Official site for the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Windsor. Provides information on his belief and aims, biography, diary, events, speeches and articles and contact details.
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n 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 society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Society and Culture "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Society and Culture When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Society and Culture You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Society and Culture Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Society and Culture There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Society and Culture If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Society and Culture Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Society and Culture Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Society and Culture A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Society and Culture When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Society and Culture "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Society and Culture I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Society and Culture "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman 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. Andre Gide Society and Culture I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Society and Culture Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Society and Culture
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