Society Of Poole Men - To arouse and maintain an interest in all that appertains to the welfare and progress of the Borough and Town of Poole.
Dorset Wildlife Rescue - A voluntary organisation providing rescue, care and advice for sick, injured or orphaned animals. Information includes details about the work done, online fact sheets and contact details.
Family History at Poole - Search facility for locating family roots, including name search and the ability to register online.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Society and Culture 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 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Society and Culture
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Society and Culture I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Society and Culture
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Society and Culture When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 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
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Society and Culture
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Society and Culture
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Society and Culture
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Society and Culture
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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 key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 Society and Culture
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "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 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Society and Culture Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Society and Culture
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Society and Culture "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death 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 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Society and Culture
