The King's Church, Swanage - Affiliated with the King's Centre in Aldershot, and also members of the Evangelical Alliance. Includes a calendar of events and contact details.
The Old Stable Tea Room and Christian Book Shop - Provide opportunities for friendship, support and fellowship, along with the sale and supply of Christian literature. Contains news, and a list of local churches.
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Society and Culture Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Society and Culture
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Society and Culture Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Society and Culture I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Society and Culture
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Society and Culture The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Society and Culture
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Society and Culture "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) 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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "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 A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Society and Culture Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Society and Culture "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Society and Culture
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Society and Culture Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Society and Culture
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "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) Society and Culture "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Society and Culture
