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Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution - Newsletter and forthcoming events.
Julianhouse - Information about charity organisation based in Bath for the homeless people of the area.
Stafford Family - Homepages of the family including webcam, pictures and diaries.
HCPT Group 42 - The Bath branch of the national charity HCPT which takes thousands of children to Lourdes every Easter. Story, history, photographs and events.
Bathford / Artannes Links - Association promoting closer links with Artannes, France with the aim of forging a formal twinning arrangement. Includes list of committee members, pictures of both communities and contacts.
Beehive Community Network (Bath) - An Online network devoted to promoting local community groups and charities by giving them the tools and support to build a their own free website.
Weston Web - Community site for Weston Village, including directory, church and school information, local government and details of local books.
BCVS Homes - BCVS Homes is a non-profit making organisation, dedicated to caring for the elderly.
The Royal Bath and West of England Society - For the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures and commerce in the counties of Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Dorset and in the City and County of Bristol.
Envolve - Local environmental education group. Provides details of resource centre at Green Park Station, details of current projects, green diary and membership information.
Widcombe Association - Residents association that exists to protect and enhance Widcombe and Lyncombe. Provides information about the association, its contacts and activities including the millennium mapping project.
Bathampton - Provides community information including local organisations, businesses, churches, schools, brief history, photographs and parish council details.
Bathampton Morris Men - Dance programme, photographs, history and details of this group of Morris Men.
Forever Friends Appeal - Background of the charity supporting the Royal United Hospital, with news, details of events, volunteering, merchandise and how to make a donation.
Friends of the Royal United Hospital - Information about a volunteer group who raise funds and help out at the hospital.
Bath Cats and Dogs Home - Profile of the home with news, rehoming stories, animal database, details of sponsorship and discussion forum.
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Society and Culture blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Society and Culture When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Society and Culture "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster Society and Culture "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Society and Culture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Society and Culture A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas "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) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Society and Culture After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Society and Culture There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Society and Culture Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous 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 Society and Culture The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Society and Culture Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Society and Culture "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx 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 "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Society and Culture In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, 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 Society and Culture "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture "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 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture
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