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Aylesbury Rotary Club - Officers and activities of the club.
Aylesbury Royal Naval Association - Information and photos, including news, social activities, parades and other events. Names of committee members and contact details with link to map of location north of the town.
Aylesbury Vale Friends of the Earth - Explains the reasons for recycling, how and where this can be done, contact by mail or phone, email list, message board and forum, related worldwide news, with index of links to recycling facilities in the area.
Limes Avenue Baptist Church - Introduction to the pastor, staff, their beliefs and history, with related links. Times of services, meetings and bible study with email contact and location.
The Friends of Florence Nightingale House - A registered charity which aims to help and financially support the work and development of the Aylesbury Hospice. The Friends provide funding for the day to day running of the Hospice and specific projects.
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Society and Culture Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Society and Culture "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Society and Culture The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein 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 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 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Society and Culture "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Society and Culture It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland "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) Society and Culture If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Society and Culture Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Society and Culture Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Society and Culture Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Society and Culture I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Society and Culture "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Society and Culture "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Society and Culture "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) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Society and Culture Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Society and Culture
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