Phoenix Agility Club - Dog training club. News, photos and details of forthcoming events.
LSU Scout & Guide Club - Loughborough Students Union group. Photos, events information and contact details.
Charnwood 2001 Scout and Guide International Camp - Information, photographs and newsletter on international scout and guide camp held 4th to 11th August 2001. Includes information on camp to be held in 2006.
Loughborough Acoustic Club - Provides a platform for budding musicians. Details about this and lists events at, Greyhound pub. [located Nottingham road]
Baby Passion - Details of an event regularly held at Vice versa, a local night club, includes photos and a forum board.
My RIP - Leave online memories so loved ones are not forgotten. Information on how to place photographs and details.
Thorpe Acre 2000 - Photographs and information about this area of the town.
Thorpe Acre - Photos and information about the 'Trail Walk' and village.
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Society and Culture Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Society and Culture
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Society and Culture
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Society and Culture Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber 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
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Society and Culture
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Society and Culture "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Society and Culture Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Society and Culture blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Society and Culture
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Society and Culture For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "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, blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Society and Culture By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Use your own best judgment at all times.
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