Greenlink - Countryside recreation, access and information for South East Dorset.
North Dorset Countryside Rangers - Countryside conservation in North Dorset. Information on current projects and details of grants available to protect the North Dorset countryside.
Butterfly Conservation Dorset Branch - Monitors and conserves butterflies and moths in the county. Events, survey data, recording forms, sightings, and species accounts.
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Science and Environment Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Science and Environment
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "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) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Science and Environment You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Science and Environment
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Science and Environment I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Science and Environment
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Science and Environment Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Science and Environment
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) 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 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Science and Environment Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Science and Environment
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Science and Environment "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Science and Environment
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Science and Environment Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Science and Environment
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Science and Environment Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Science and Environment
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Science and Environment "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Science and Environment
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Science and Environment Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
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