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Panoramic tour of Christchurch - Aerial photograph with linked panoramics showing main areas of the town, including the Priory.
Xchurch.co.uk - A community site for the local area. Includes photos, news, weather and history.
Christchurch Dorset - An overview of the town with details of its history, restaurants and businesses.
Visit Christchurch - A detailed guide to the town's heritage, culture and surroundings. Listings of events, restaurants, attractions, local services and accommodation.
Christchurch Online - General information featuring movies of the quay, millstream, castle, rivers and town centre.
Local Histories: A Brief History of Christchurch - Essay providing a concise summary of the town's development from the Saxon period to the 20th Century.
Christchurch - Description and historical survey of the area including photographs of Hengistbury Head, Stanpit, Mudeford and the town centre.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Christchurch Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Christchurch "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Christchurch If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Christchurch "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Christchurch I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Christchurch Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Christchurch "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Christchurch blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Christchurch Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Christchurch "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Christchurch "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) 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 Christchurch "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Christchurch To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Christchurch Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) 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 Christchurch "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Christchurch For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Christchurch We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Christchurch All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Christchurch We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Christchurch For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Christchurch "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 Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz Christchurch
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