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The Portsmouth Society - Independent voluntary body interested in the preservation of the city's buildings, streets, open spaces and seashore. Search facility available.
Portsmouth Under Eights Forum - Organises training, conferences, newsletters and meetings for people interested in provisions for children under eight.
Ladies who Lunch mainly in Hampshire - Three women's views on restaurants and pubs, mainly in Hampshire. Includes history and guest book.
Portsmouth Lions Club - We are a voluntary charity organisation consisting of local people who wish to help the community by giving help to the needy and good causes
Battle of Trafalgar: Nelson's Navy - The story of Horatio Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, and the celebrations at Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard, the Home of the Royal Navy.
Portsmouth Gay Village - On-line Community for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered people to develop stronger links and friendships in the wider Community of Portsmouth and South East Hampshire.
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Society and Culture I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Society and Culture The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Society and Culture A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Society and Culture "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi "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) Society and Culture I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words "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 Society and Culture I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Society and Culture Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "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) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Society and Culture If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "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) Society and Culture Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster 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 Society and Culture Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Society and Culture "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Society and Culture True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Society and Culture What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Society and Culture The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Society and Culture I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
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