Rutland Optimists - Social activities and support group for single people. Newsletter about monthly programme of events, membership details and costs.
Uppingham Community College 70's Re-union - For former pupils of this college who attended the school in the mid to late 1970's. Photographs and contact information.
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Society and Culture What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Society and Culture
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Society and Culture
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Society and Culture "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Marriage is a rest period between romances. In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Society and Culture Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Society and Culture
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Society and Culture Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Society and Culture
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Society and Culture You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Society and Culture I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Society and Culture
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Society and Culture "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Society and Culture "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) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Society and Culture
