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This Is Folkestone - Contains details of people, places, events, music, theatre, libraries, the arts, charities, schools, days out, businesses, photography, freebies.
BBC Kent Folkestone Panorama - 360 degree panorama of Folkestone Harbour.
Knowhere Guide - Inside information, hook-up spots and stuff only locals know. Subjective opinions contributed by users.
Folkestone Then and Now - A photo gallery of Folkestone past and present.
Radio Victoria - Hospital Radio - Broadcasts programmes to patients, staff and visitors at the town's Royal Victoria Hospital. Includes schedules, presenters' profiles and fundraising opportunities.
Folkestone White Horse - Project to create a landmark white horse on the chalk hills above the town.
Cheriton Community Web Site - Community information for Cheriton, Morehall and Sandgate. Includes amenities, business directory, transport, history, maps.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Folkestone "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." 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Wells The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Folkestone "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Folkestone I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Folkestone Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Folkestone "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland 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 "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Folkestone Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Folkestone The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Folkestone Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim 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 During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard Folkestone Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Folkestone "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Folkestone Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Folkestone All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Folkestone "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. -- Winston Churchill The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Folkestone Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Folkestone "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Folkestone When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Folkestone Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Folkestone "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Folkestone
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