Rushmoor Borough Council - Encompasses Aldershot (the Home of the British Army) and Farnborough (where aviation was pioneered) and provides a wealth of information for both visitors and people who live in the area.
Kings Church - A non-denominational free church which meets together at the Kings Centre in Aldershot, Hampshire.
NE Hampshire Youth Bureau - A local independent charity helping young people up to 25 years with information and advice offering a friendly confidential drop-in service.
West End Infant School - For children from 4-7. Details of Ofsed reports, financial reports and Governors. Aldershot
Daylight Project - Drop in centre for homeless/unemployed young people is managed by a consortium of local agencies including Emmaus Projects and the Hampshire County Youth Service.
Aldershot Community Council - A citizens committee dedicated to trying to pull together the various groups and individuals who are working for a better Aldershot.
Hart and Rushmoor Rotaract Club - Organisation, formally known as the Aldersot section, with close links to the local rotary club, this group is made up of young people aged 18-30 who enjoy helping in the community.
Aldershot Guide - An essay on Aldershot, its history and origins, what to see and local links
Holy Trinity Church Aldershot - Details of services and teaching groups, pastoral groups and care activities, and Alpha groups.
Brickfields Country Park - Probably the smallest country park in the UK with many and varied habitats. Open all year. Contact information.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Aldershot "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Aldershot
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Aldershot Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aldershot
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal 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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Aldershot The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Aldershot
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen 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 Aldershot Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White 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 could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Aldershot
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Aldershot The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Aldershot
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Aldershot Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "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 Aldershot
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Aldershot Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Aldershot
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Aldershot "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Aldershot
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Aldershot We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Aldershot
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed 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 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Aldershot "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Aldershot
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Aldershot "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Aldershot
