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Art Space Portsmouth - Art project based in Portsmouth. Details of projects artists and exhibitions.
Portsmouth Imaging Club - History of the club, and present organisation for practical image-making. Contains contacts, newsletter, images from members and details of the Portsmouth open exhibition.
portsmouth poetry society - A group of poets who enjoy reading and writing poetry. Meet fortnightly and publish an anthology periodically.
Catalyst - This is an open group of women artists and scientists who are continually researching the relationship between art and science in our daily lives.
Portsmouth Nightlife - Information on some of the pubs and clubs in Portsmouth with fun photos.
Vertigo Music Festival, Southsea, Portsmouth - Information and details of the festival. Band interviews and reviews.
Shep Woolley - History, critiques, discography and resume of this comedian, singer, song writer and entertainer.
The Artwork of Jenni Catlow - A description (with examples) of recent art work undertaken by Jenni Catlow, inspired by a residency at Fishbourne Roman Palace.
Denmead Operatic Society - Amateur operatic society specialising in the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, and other late 19th and early 20th century composers. Performance diary, equipment for hire, history and news.
Southsea Belles Morris - Ladies side that mainly perform Cotswold dances, but also dance some Border style. Sections about the history of the team, the kit, photos and how to join.
Victory Morris - Kited out in red waistcoats, black trousers and tricon hats this male side dance in the Cotswold style. Details include dance list, pictures and programme.
Spitbank Fort - Includes information, history, photographs and contact details. Situated a mile offshore from Portsmouth Harbour.
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Arts and Entertainment Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Arts and Entertainment We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Arts and Entertainment Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Arts and Entertainment Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Arts and Entertainment 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 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Arts and Entertainment "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper 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 How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown Arts and Entertainment Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Arts and Entertainment What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "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) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Arts and Entertainment I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Arts and Entertainment "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Arts and Entertainment History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous "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) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Arts and Entertainment The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Arts and Entertainment "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
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