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St Thomas' Church, Fair Oak - Fair Oak & Horton Heath Parish web site with special area for Church members.
Eastleigh Community Services - An independent charity aiming to improve the quality of life for residents, by supporting local voluntary activity and providing a range of services and facilities.
Churches Together in Eastleigh & Bishopstoke - An ecumenical grouping of Christian churches in the south of Hampshire, UK. Find a local church or join in a local event.
Psychic Encounters - Mediums site includes UK psychics, spiritualism, paranormal, chat room, angels, astrology, readings, books, dreams, guidance, angels, ESP.
The Parish of Eastleigh - Information and times of services for All Saints Church and details on weddings, funerals, christenings and other religious services; special events and prayers.
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Society and Culture The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life 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 Society and Culture Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth 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" Society and Culture One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Society and Culture Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Society and Culture It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley "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 imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Society and Culture "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Society and Culture Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) 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 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer 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 To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Society and Culture A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain 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 Society and Culture Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Society and Culture Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland 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 are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Society and Culture Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Society and Culture
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