Littleton and Harestock - News and events from the parish with contacts, history and information about sports and clubs.
Littleton and Harestock Parish Council - The two settlements are separated by a large area of chalk downland on the outskirts of Winchester. Littleton has some 600 homes and the newer settlement of Harestock 800.
Henry Beaufort School - Information from the science and technology departments, plus school year diary dates.
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Littleton and Harestock "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Littleton and Harestock
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Littleton and Harestock "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 Littleton and Harestock
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Littleton and Harestock Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Littleton and Harestock
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Littleton and Harestock Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "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) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Littleton and Harestock
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Littleton and Harestock Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Littleton and Harestock
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson 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" the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Littleton and Harestock If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Littleton and Harestock
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Littleton and Harestock The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Littleton and Harestock
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Littleton and Harestock Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "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) Littleton and Harestock
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Littleton and Harestock The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Littleton and Harestock
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Littleton and Harestock There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Littleton and Harestock
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 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Littleton and Harestock A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Littleton and Harestock
