St Petroc IT Training Scheme - An IT training scheme for homeless men and women in Portsmouth. Details about the scheme its courses and supporters.
Portsmouth Ethnic Minority Achievement Service - Works with schools to reduce under achievement by ethnic minority pupils, give aid to parents to help pupils and develop provision for intercultural education.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Education
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Education "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Education I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "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) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Education
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Education He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Education
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "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) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Education The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Education "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Education
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Education The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Education
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Education .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Education
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo 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 Education A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Education How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Education
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Education "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Education
