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Robert Robertson`s Family Album - Personal home pages of Robert Robertson, a resident of Lewes, East Sussex.
Soroptimist International Lewes and District - A worldwide organisation for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Includes club projects, calendar, officers and friendship links.
Lewes Links - Aims to forge links with and to promote better understanding of central and Eastern Europe. Profile, achievements, information about membership and news from Eastern Europe.
Southover Church - C of E. Describes its vision with information about services and activities, news and events.
Lewes Lions Club - Details of the club and what it does in the community.
Rocket FM Lewes - A local radio station broadcasting in Lewes and the surrounding area for three weeks during October and November 2003.
Christ Church - United reformed and Methodist Church. Worship, overview, events, activities, newsletter and contacts.
Eastgate Baptist Church - Includes diary of events coming up and details of the church and its services.
Lewes Living Streets - Lewes branch of Living Streets: national campaign of the Pedestrians' Association. Includes links, contacts and results of community street audits.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Society and Culture A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Society and Culture My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Society and Culture A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Society and Culture The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- 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 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Society and Culture "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Society and Culture Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Society and Culture 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 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Society and Culture Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Society and Culture It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower 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 Society and Culture I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Society and Culture >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) 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 Society and Culture I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. 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 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Society and Culture If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Society and Culture However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Society and Culture
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