Mottisfont Concert Fiasco - This site publicises a campaign to recover ticket costs from Plato Productions for the Lesley Garrett concert fiasco at Mottisfont (near Romsey) on the 28th August 1999.
Romsey Heritage Centre - Encompasses three buildings: King Johns House, the Tudor cottage and the Victorian museum. Details of prices, facilities, events and location.
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
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If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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-- David Chambless Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Arts and Entertainment When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
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Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
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mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Arts and Entertainment If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Arts and Entertainment
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
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-- Jacob Braude Arts and Entertainment
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Arts and Entertainment
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Arts and Entertainment "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) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Arts and Entertainment
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Arts and Entertainment "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Arts and Entertainment
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Arts and Entertainment As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Arts and Entertainment Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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