Christchurch Volunteer Bureau - Local organisation offering detail of local volunteer opportunities. Includes opening and contact details.
Christchurch Local History Society - Dedicated to the study and preservation of the borough's heritge. Details of committee members and schemes.
Christchurch Matters - Information about the borough's Community Partnership with news from action groups covering the lifestyle, health, care and prosperity of residents.
Christchurch Countryside Service - Organised by the Borough Council. Provides news about issues, events, volunteering and local nature reserves.
Christchurch Harbour Ornithological Group - Dedicated to birdwatching and recording in areas covering Stanpit Marsh and Hengistbury Head. Listings of sightings and recommended birding sites.
The Pubs and Inns of Christchurch's Town Centre - An article tracing the development of the town's history through its drinking-places. Descriptions of past and present establishments with archive photographs.
The Remarkable Druitts - The history of the family in terms of their involvement in the town. Includes discussion of related buildings and gardens.
Christchurch Community - Forum for locals and visitors. Sections include discussions of events and history, and the opportunity to correspond with twinned-town residents.
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz 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 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Society and Culture
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Society and Culture He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln 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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Society and Culture
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Society and Culture This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "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) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Society and Culture
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Society and Culture
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
of u Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Society and Culture Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society and Culture
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Society and Culture
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Society and Culture Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Society and Culture "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Society and Culture
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Society and Culture Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture
