Basingstoke local attractions - Information about attractions and places to visit in the Basingstoke Area, from Hampshire County Council.
The Golf Travel Club - Your passport to some of the finest golf in Europe and further afield.
Top Travel Europe - Offering fully escorted luxury motorcoach vacations throughout Europe.
Pam Turner, Ltd. - Accommodation on the Costa Del Sol - a wide selection of villas and apartments in a variety of locations.
Galleon Marine - Offers narrowboat hire on the Basingstoke Canal. Describes the company and its fleet with layouts, tariff and directions.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Travel and Tourism 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 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Travel and Tourism
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Travel and Tourism
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Travel and Tourism "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) 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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Travel and Tourism
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Travel and Tourism "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Travel and Tourism
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism
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" When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Travel and Tourism When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Travel and Tourism
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "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 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Travel and Tourism
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Travel and Tourism I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Travel and Tourism
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Travel and Tourism
