Storrington Community - A list of most clubs and organisations with contact details.
Storrington Rotary Club - Meets at the Anchor Inn on Monday evenings. Includes project list and directions.
White Canons - Briefly describes a quarterly English language publication from Our Lady of England Abbey. Includes contact details.
MPL Studios - Photographic studios. Profile, services, testimonials and a portfolio of completed work.
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël 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 A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Storrington 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 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 The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Storrington
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Storrington Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Storrington
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Storrington It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Storrington
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Man and wife make one fool. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Storrington If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Storrington
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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 Storrington Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Storrington
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Storrington "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Storrington
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Storrington "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Storrington
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Storrington Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Storrington
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Storrington The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Storrington
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Storrington The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Storrington
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Storrington 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.
-- Crowf Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Storrington
