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Wessex Society - Dedicated to the history, culture, folklore and regional identity of the English counties of Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.
National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service - A network of Councils for Voluntary Service (CVS) throughout England. Advice, information, publications, training, events, news and resources.
Fly the Flag - Promoting an awareness of England and all things English. Information about membership and events, forum, and patriotic paraphernalia for sale.
England for Connoisseurs - Contains recommended London and regional hotels, restaurants, and shops, articles and event diary of cultural, sporting and royal events.
English Historic Towns Forum - Association of local authorities disseminating best practice on a wide range of issues concerning the management of historic towns and cities through conferences and publications; working with and lobbying, government and other policy making bodies.
English Culture - Your key to the fads, foibles and eccentricities of cultural England.
Nostalghia Southern England - Photographs of Bath, Stonehenge, Lacock, St.Ives, Exeter, Dartmoor National Park, Shaftesbury, Brighton and London suburbs.
RSVP - Introduction agency also providing social events. Profile, services, policies, events and enquiry form
Cross of St George - Celebrating Englishness, with notes from English history, plus message board and chatroom for debates.
AltCulture - Dedicated to deconstructing popular culture with the aim of promoting an alternative culture. Essays on issues such as "Is The X-Files Subversive?" and on expanding awareness of St George.
River Thames Lifestyle - A brief history of the river which runs from the Cotswolds to London, with photos and discussion of the lifestyles of residents of the river and its banks.
The Dog Rescues Network - Rescues and rehomes unwanted and stray dogs in the South of England. Includes information about local centres and details of animals needing homes.
Alcoholics Anonymous. - A complete list of every AA meeting in England, updated every month.
The British Page - Humorous and slightly sarcastic views on Britain and the British as seen by a Dane.
Children's Services England - A guide to Children's Services, covering Adoption, Fostering, Early Years, Child Welfare and Child Protection.
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Society and Culture "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb "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 "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') We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Society and Culture "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Society and Culture The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes Society and Culture Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Society and Culture And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Society and Culture "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 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 Society and Culture Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Society and Culture "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Society and Culture You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. Society and Culture 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 Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
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