Sussex Rock'n'Roll Society - 50's Rock'n'Roll and jive club located in Shoreham-on-Sea. Includes information on upcoming events.
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Clubs and Venues Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Clubs and Venues
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Clubs and Venues "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Clubs and Venues
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Clubs and Venues "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Clubs and Venues
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Clubs and Venues If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Clubs and Venues
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Clubs and Venues Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Clubs and Venues
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Clubs and Venues "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Clubs and Venues
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Clubs and Venues The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Clubs and Venues
"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 "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Clubs and Venues Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Clubs and Venues
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Clubs and Venues Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Clubs and Venues
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Clubs and Venues Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Clubs and Venues
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Clubs and Venues blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Clubs and Venues
