Dorset Churches - A photograph and bibliography for each church, presented by Michael Day.
Dorset Arts and Crafts Association - An association to promote arts and crafts in the county. Details of their annual exhibition and bursaries. Members area and newsletter.
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) 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 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
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-- Vince Lombardi A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Arts and Entertainment Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Arts and Entertainment
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Arts and Entertainment However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Arts and Entertainment
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 Arts and Entertainment The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Arts and Entertainment
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
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-- Mike Binder "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Arts and Entertainment
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Arts and Entertainment ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Arts and Entertainment "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Arts and Entertainment
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Arts and Entertainment Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Arts and Entertainment "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Arts and Entertainment
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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-- Allen Ginsberg "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
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