Worth Hill Observatory - A private amateur run observatory open to the public by appointment and for public open evenings each year. Includes details and photographs of some of the observations made.
Moves Fitness - A UK fitness franchise that follows the safety recommendations of the American College of Sports Medicine. Includes teacher training and "find a class" features.
Daily Echo - Purbeck edition - One of the many editions of the online Daily Echo with news about Swanage and the Purbecks.
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Swanage Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Swanage
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Swanage An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Swanage
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Swanage Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Swanage
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Swanage "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Swanage
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Swanage An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru 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 Swanage
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Swanage "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Swanage
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Swanage 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) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Swanage
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Swanage Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Swanage
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "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 Swanage Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Swanage
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Swanage "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Swanage
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Swanage It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Swanage
