New Forest South District Scouts - The district covers Ashley, Barton on Sea, Boldre, Brockenhurst, Hordle, Lymington, Pennington, New Milton and Sway.
NFDC Youth Website - Web site for young people in the New Forest. Details of clubs and associations in the area.
New Forest Badger Watch - See wild badgers up close. Appeal for new members, and descriptions of the observations being undertaken.
New Forest Marathon Association - Full and half marathons with current charities of The National Meningitis Trust and the NSPCC.
New Forest Cycling Club - Outlines the activities of the club with schedule of events, details of courses and results. Provides contact details and club news.
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Recreation and Sports "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Recreation and Sports
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Recreation and Sports 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 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Recreation and Sports
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- Smith & Jones Recreation and Sports
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Recreation and Sports
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "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 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Recreation and Sports Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Recreation and Sports
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Recreation and Sports Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Recreation and Sports
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Recreation and Sports The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Recreation and Sports
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Recreation and Sports "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Recreation and Sports
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Recreation and Sports Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Recreation and Sports More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
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