St Barbe Museum - Interactive displays on the history of Lymington and the New Forest area. Information on the museum, including upcoming exhibitions, details of exhibits, and a links page.
Lymington Choral Society - Rehearsal times, upcoming events, membership fees and contact information.
Lymington Community Association - Centre opening hours, location, room hire prices, staff list and contact details. Membership fees for the various classes available.
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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Society and Culture English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. 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 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Society and Culture The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Society and Culture
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "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) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Society and Culture Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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. Society and Culture
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Society and Culture "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Society and Culture The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Society and Culture
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Society and Culture The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Society and Culture
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Society and Culture It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "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) Society and Culture
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Society and Culture
