Not as We Know it - A monthly event at Christchurch, involving spirituality, music, poetry and visual arts.
Woking Dolphins - A group providing a sheltered swimming group for disabled, elderly, visually and sensory impaired, people with medical conditions and pregnant women.
Woking Rotaract - Club of young people aged 18 - 30 who have fun while helping others as part of Rotaract worldwide. Events and contacts.
Woking Lions Club - Charity organisation engaged in fund raising for worthwhile local causes and member of the international Lions movement.
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Society and Culture
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Society and Culture Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture "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) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Society and Culture
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Society and Culture ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Society and Culture
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Society and Culture I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Society and Culture
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "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) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! 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
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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Society and Culture Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Society and Culture You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Society and Culture The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Society and Culture
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Society and Culture Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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