Chichester Baptist Church - Includes an introduction to the church, as well as a map, timetable and a question/answer page.
Lions Club of Chichester - Includes contact details and information on the activities of the club, a member of the Lions International organisation.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Society and Culture I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Society and Culture
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown 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 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Society and Culture Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Society and Culture If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Society and Culture
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Society and Culture I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Society and Culture
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "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) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Society and Culture
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Society and Culture "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Society and Culture
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Society and Culture
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Society and Culture He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Society and Culture
