Society and Culture Links
Return to Main
 Link to our Web Page
 Up One Level
:: Europe :::: United Kingdom :::: England :::: Kent :::: Broadstairs :::: Society and Culture ::

Society and Culture Links

Bahai Community Broadstairs - News, activities, events and links.
St Peter's Baptist Church - Located in the village of St Peter's. Includes service details, location, church diary and information about courses, events, groups, youth activities and pastoral care.
St Peter's Church - The church of St Peter-in-Thanet in St Peter's village. Includes service times, news and staff, plus children's Sunday Club pages with games, news and photographs. Also features history and architecture guide with photographs and descriptions of the church windows.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s 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 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Society and Culture Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein 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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Society and Culture Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides 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 Society and Culture There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Society and Culture History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Society and Culture Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Society and Culture 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 blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Society and Culture "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to 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 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Society and Culture "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Society and Culture Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Society and Culture Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Society and Culture I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Society and Culture
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |