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Cyclobooze - An annual cycle ride around the Isle of Wight to raise money for Charity.
St Cecilia's Abbey - A cloistered Benedictine Abbey which is aggregated to the Solesmes Congregation. Shockwave needed to see many of the graphics.
Clarity Books and Workshops - Self development and meditation courses, with course descriptions, message board, related products, and online counseling.
Isle of Wight Gay Guide - Describes the local gay community with information about social activities and support.
Isle of Wight History Centre - From the Isle of Wight Industrial Archaeology Society. A comprehensive resource for news and links to the Island's past, from prehistory to World War 2, including recent discoveries and established work.
Isle of Wight County, Virginia - The early history of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, and the part played by the people from Isle of Wight, England, in colonising that area.
Isle of Wight Nostalgia - Information about the island, photographs, local businesses, and a substantial visitor contribution section including holiday stories, poetry and songs.
Island Views Count - Forum for discussion of local, national and international issues.
Isle of Wight Methodists - A circuit comprising twenty-eight local churches. Information on church locations, service times and ministers.
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Society and Culture Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Society and Culture "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Society and Culture "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Society and Culture Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Society and Culture Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words "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) Society and Culture A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Society and Culture "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Society and Culture When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Society and Culture An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Society and Culture "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Society and Culture "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Society and Culture "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare "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) Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Society and Culture We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture
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