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Redhill History - A brief history of the town of Redhill and the surrounding areas.
Old Redhill and Reigate - A pictorial history of Redhill, Reigate and the surrounding area, with a map containing hotspots to postcards and photographs.
Redhill Centre for Local and Family History - Local History Centre based at Redhill Library, manned by volunteers from the local history society
The Merstham Web - Guide to Merstham with local history, events, sport, business and pictures.
Redhill Incinerator - Group to get people talking about the proposed energy to waste plant at Copyhold Works, east of Redhill.
5th Reigate Scout Troop - The district's largest scout troup, meeting at the Battlebridge Lane scout hall
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville Society and Culture Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Society and Culture Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Society and Culture Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Society and Culture I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "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 May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Society and Culture Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara 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 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Society and Culture Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Society and Culture "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Society and Culture It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Society and Culture To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Society and Culture "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Society and Culture "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Society and Culture Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Society and Culture "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Society and Culture When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Society and Culture
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