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Basingstoke Early Dance - Social dances from between 1450 and 1650. Information about classes, and upcoming performances under their stage name - Renaissance Footnotes.
Warner Village Cinema Basingstoke - 2398 seater ten screen multiplex situated at the Basingstoke Leisure Park. Site offers on-line booking.
Basingstoke Symphony Orchestra - Performs three concerts a year at The Anvil.
Basingstoke Choral Society - A choir of mixed voices performing three concerts each year at The Anvil, working with the finest young professional singers and players.
Club 2000 Bingo - Big prize money, fully air conditioned, 1250 seat bingo club situated on Basingstoke Leisure Park.
The Picture Studio - Offers fine art limited edition prints. Gallery searchable by artist or style with information about framing, buying and collectors club.
The Good Fortunes - Music ensemble comprising of nine members describe the line up and their type of music. Provides an opportunity to listen to samples.
AM's Discos - Mobile Disco.
BasingClog Morris - Mixed North West clog side provide dance programme, photo gallery, contact numbers and information about joining.
Get Real - Very informative site about the Sundance Festival prize winning 1998 Paramount film 'Get Real', which was filmed in Basingstoke. Has lots of local information.
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Arts and Entertainment We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Arts and Entertainment 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 better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Arts and Entertainment Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Arts and Entertainment Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Arts and Entertainment Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Arts and Entertainment Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte "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) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Arts and Entertainment "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Arts and Entertainment Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Arts and Entertainment It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Arts and Entertainment Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign 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 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Arts and Entertainment We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Arts and Entertainment The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Arts and Entertainment "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "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 Arts and Entertainment Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Arts and Entertainment I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. 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