Club Weekenders - A social club aimed at promoting friendships, through events and entertainment for singles or couples, aged 30 plus. Includes application, membership, newsletter and events details.
Community Action Hampshire - Independent charity, working across Hampshire and its neighbouring authorities, as a development agency and co-ordinating body for the voluntary sector.
Warblington and Denvilles Residents' Association - Serves an area situated in south eastern Hampshire next to the West Sussex border and adjacent to Chichester and Langstone harbours. Object is to inform residents of their rights.
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Organisations There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Organisations
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Organisations They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Organisations
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Organisations What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Organisations
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Organisations I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Organisations
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Organisations Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Organisations
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Organisations Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Organisations History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Organisations
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Organisations "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Organisations
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Organisations "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Organisations
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart 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 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Organisations Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Organisations
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Organisations 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 Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle 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 Organisations
