Romsey and District Society - Details include membership information, events diary and aims of the organisation.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Society and Culture
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Society and Culture
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Society and Culture Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Society and Culture
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Society and Culture
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Society and Culture There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Society and Culture
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Society and Culture Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 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.
-- Crowf Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Society and Culture That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Society and Culture "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
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