Christchurch and Highcliffe Band - A brass band appearing regularly in local events. Details of its history and forthcoming engagements.
Highcliffe Charity Players - Productions include pantomimes, revues and musicals. Reviews of previous performances with photographs, news and rehearsal schedules.
Highcliffe Junior Choir - Offers choral training with performances in concert and competition venues. Membership details, events diary and background information.
Unofficial Guide to Highcliffe On Sea - Information for residents and visitors. Details of events, local services and organisations with photographs.
Dorset Life: Highcliffe - Article discussing the development of the castle in relation to both its social context and the interests of the Stuart and Penleaze families. Includes descriptions of the castle's design and stained glass windows.
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Highcliffe "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Highcliffe
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Highcliffe The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Highcliffe
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Highcliffe "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Highcliffe
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Highcliffe "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Highcliffe
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" 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 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Highcliffe Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Highcliffe
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Highcliffe "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Highcliffe "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Highcliffe
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 Highcliffe If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Highcliffe
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Highcliffe Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Highcliffe
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Highcliffe "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Highcliffe
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Highcliffe By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Highcliffe
