Basildon Womens Refuge - A charitable organisation providing a refuge for women and their children who have been victims of domestic violence, which may be physical, mental or sexual in the local area.
Basildon Stitching Club - News, diary, exhibitions, photographs, bookshop and contact details.
Northlands Park Neighbourhood - About us, your views, local news and information, local events, links and contact details.
Basildon District Scouts - Includes program information for the Beaver, Cub, Scout and Venture Sections. Leaders resources, Scout Fellowship and BEAST contacts as well as links to scout resources.
Basildon Operatic Society - Previous and future show information, membership details and contact information.
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Society and Culture
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Society and Culture Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Society and Culture
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Society and Culture
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Society and Culture I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Society and Culture "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Society and Culture
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Society and Culture
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Society and Culture Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Society and Culture Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Society and Culture
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Society and Culture I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Society and Culture
