Guildford Youth Council - Made up of representatives from schools and organisations in the Guildford area. Events, information, chat rooms and online games.
1st Guildford Company of the Boys' Brigade - Based in St John's Stoke-next-Guildford. Company overview with information on each section, history, locality, events, badges and church.
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Society and Culture Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Society and Culture
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Society and Culture Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Society and Culture
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Society and Culture The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Society and Culture
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Society and Culture Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Society and Culture 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 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Society and Culture
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Society and Culture There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford 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) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Society and Culture
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Society and Culture A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Society and Culture "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Society and Culture
