Girls' Brigade - Solent District - Provides a wide range of activities to develop physical, mental and spiritual maturity. For girls age 5-21. Covers Emsworth, Portsmouth, Fareham, Havant, Waterlooville and Cosham.
Institute of Logistics and Transport, Hampshire and Dorset Branch - Represents all aspects of transportation and logistics amongst its members, including both freight and passenger aspects of road, rail, shipping, air, education, ports, airports, and transport planning.
Solent Guild of Wood Carvers and Sculptors - A Guild of Amateur and Professional Carvers and Sculptors based in the South East Hampshire area. Regular meetings during the winter months and many events supported during the summer.
North Hampshire CAMRA - Campaigning in North Hampshire to preserve and promote traditional pubs, independent breweries and real ale. Local news, awards and social diary.
South Hants section: BKKS - County branch of the British Koi Keepers Society. Provides an event calendar, for sale section, open shows and general society details.
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Clubs and Societies Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Clubs and Societies
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Clubs and Societies Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
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-- Orison Swett Marden Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Clubs and Societies
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Clubs and Societies "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Clubs and Societies
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Clubs and Societies "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Clubs and Societies
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Clubs and Societies "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Clubs and Societies
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Clubs and Societies I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Clubs and Societies
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Clubs and Societies blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Clubs and Societies
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Clubs and Societies "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Clubs and Societies
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Clubs and Societies A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Clubs and Societies
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Clubs and Societies A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Clubs and Societies
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Clubs and Societies "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Clubs and Societies
