Basingstoke YMCA - Working in Basingstoke and north Hampshire to provide high quality, affordable services to young people.
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Loddon Valley Lions - Charity organisation, mainly organising fund raising events for local people.
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Society and Culture Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) 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. Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France 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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Society and Culture
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith 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 Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Society and Culture
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Society and Culture "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Society and Culture
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Society and Culture "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Society and Culture
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Society and Culture
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen 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, Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Society and Culture Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Society and Culture Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
