Reigate and Banstead Borough Council - contains information about the Council and its services, along with information about the local area for visitors and business.
The Music Trust - Embraces musical and artistic events in Reigate, including the Reigate Summer Music festival and The English Arts Chorale. Concerts and ticket sales.
Old Redhill and Reigate - A pictorial history of Redhill, Reigate and the surrounding area, with a map containing hotspots to postcards and photographs.
Banstead Arts Festival Society - Promotes and presents music and art events in and around the Banstead area. Profile, events and booking information.
Golf Par Excellence - Operates golf holidays to Europe. Describes its holidays with competition and special offers.
Reigate Methodist Church - Offers worship, vision, children, youth, groups and Alpha course. In the Redhill and East Grinstead circuit.
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Reigate and Banstead For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Reigate and Banstead
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "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 Reigate and Banstead There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Reigate and Banstead
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Reigate and Banstead If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Reigate and Banstead
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Reigate and Banstead "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Reigate and Banstead
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Reigate and Banstead "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Reigate and Banstead
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Reigate and Banstead "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Reigate and Banstead
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Reigate and Banstead I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Reigate and Banstead
"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) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "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 Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Reigate and Banstead The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Reigate and Banstead
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Reigate and Banstead Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Reigate and Banstead
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "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) Reigate and Banstead "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Reigate and Banstead
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous 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 Reigate and Banstead My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reigate and Banstead
