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The Boyacks from Wokingham - Personal home page. Bridge and genealogy.
Wokingham Round Table - Community based organisation for male adults under 40. Aims and objects, events and how to join.
Daisy's Dream - Service to help support bereaved children in Berkshire. Events, services and how to help.
Holt Copse Conservation Volunteers - Holt Copse is a small area of woodland situated near Wokingham. Aims, activities, events and newsletter.
2499 (Wokingham) Squadron ATC - Uniformed youth organisation for 13-18 year olds. Full information about the Squadron, including news and events and a New Entrant Guide.
Wokingham and Bracknell RSPB Group - Local members group of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Meetings, field trips and news.
Wokingham Town Twinning Association - Features information about Wokingham's two twin towns, Erftstadt in Germany and Viry-Chatillon in France, write-ups of past visits, and FAQs.
Pinewood Miniature Railway Society - Newsletter and events.
Rik Williams With Raleigh International - Rik Williams' expedition to Costa Rica and Nicaragua with the youth development charity Raleigh International. Details of the project, Rik's involvement and sponsorship information.
Wokingham Citizens Advice Bureau - Free and impartial advice. Contains details of services, location and opening times.
John Redwood - Member of Parliament. Articles, press releases, speech transcripts, constituency maps and a biography.
Wokingham Conservatives - Lists association officers, comments on national and local issues.
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Society and Culture It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Society and Culture Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Society and Culture It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Society and Culture Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin Society and Culture 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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Society and Culture Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Society and Culture It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Society and Culture "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Society and Culture The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach Society and Culture "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- 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 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture
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