Bournemouth Community - A forum for local groups, clubs, or associations to make themselves known to local people.
Neighbourhood Management in Springbourne and Boscombe West - Outlines the activities of this neighbourhood renewal group including details of who is involved, what they have achieved and their future plans for improving the area's services.
Charminster Action - Charminster resident's and traders action group newsletter containing news and community issues.
Cranborne House - Review of University accommodation by an American student.
Charminster Community Pages - List of amenities in Charminster, as well as information on the community's constitution.
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Society and Culture The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Society and Culture Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) 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 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Society and Culture "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Society and Culture The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Society and Culture "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Society and Culture
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Society and Culture I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "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 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "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) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Society and Culture
