The Wessex Astrology Circle - Non-profit making group of spiritually aware astrologers. Describes its activitieswith meeting details, news, projects and membership information.
Activity Kidz - A fully searchable directory of children's activities, services and events in and around Dorset.
India Mission - History and description of Danny Yound's initiative to support villages in India. Information on how to support, and on work undertaken.
Fashion Worlds - An examination of fashion designers and their influences by students from villages across the county. Includes excerpts from news reports.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Society and Culture "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Society and Culture
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Society and Culture
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Society and Culture the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke 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 The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Society and Culture Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Society and Culture The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Society and Culture
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Society and Culture The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Marriage is a rest period between romances. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Society and Culture
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Society and Culture "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture
