Open Dore - Community portal for the village of Dore. Local news and information, history of the village, links to local businesses and a photo gallery.
Garden Glorious - Suppliers of garden or indoor plants, with details of goods available, plus hints and tips for plant care.
Christ Church - With details of clergy, services, events, history, parish profile, photo gallery and contact particulars.
Dore Parents Association - Details of fund-raising and social events organised by the Parents Association of Dore Primary School.
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Dore Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Dore
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Dore "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Dore
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Dore If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "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) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Dore
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Dore I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Dore
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" Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Dore blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Dore
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Dore "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Dore
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President 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 Dore Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Dore
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Dore I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dore
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Dore 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 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Dore
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Dore Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet 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 blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Dore
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Dore I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Dore
