Ipswich Buddhist Centre - Offers drop in classes and courses in meditation and Buddhism, chanting, yoga and Kung Fu.
Breakfast on Bridge - Free Sunday breakfast club for the communities of South West Ipswich run by Bridge Community Church.
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Religion He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius 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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Religion
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Religion "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Religion
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Religion Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Religion
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Religion "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Religion 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 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Religion
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Religion The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Religion
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Religion If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric 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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Religion
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Religion A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Religion
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Religion Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Religion
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Religion "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Religion
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan 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 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Religion The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Religion
