Holtwood Methodist Church - Welcome, overview, minister, people, services, activities, diary and a forum.
The ISECCA Project - A community based programme with aims to generate hope, self belief and achievement by empowering individuals and communities to become tolerant and fulfilled in all areas of life. Workshop and contact details.
St Catherines Church - Information on services, the Diocese and local Roman Catholic schools.
Wimborne-Valognes Twinning Association - A community-run organisation, independent of the local Council, encouraging family, sporting and cultural friendships across the Channel. Membership information, town descriptions and events calendar.
Wimborne CCTV Information - News, views and information about the proposed CCTV system to be installed in the town centre of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, UK
Swan Rescue Sanctuary - 24 rescue service for swans. Large sanctuary of 40 ponds and lakes, hospital and veterinary support. The largest purpose built rescue centre in the UK.
Ann Fletcher Yoga - Details of yoga classes in the Wimborne area in Dorset.
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Society and Culture Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Society and Culture
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Society and Culture "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Society and Culture
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Society and Culture
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins 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, "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Society and Culture "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Society and Culture
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Society and Culture "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Society and Culture "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Society and Culture Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
