Bowerhill Ladies Group - An opportunity for the ladies of Bowerhill to meet informally on a regular basis to exchange ideas and develop new interests.
Rachel Fowler Centre - Community centre available for public and private hire. List of regular patrons, contact details, floor plan and history.
Bowerhill.info - News, local event information and message boards.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Society and Culture Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Society and Culture
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 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
married Society and Culture My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Society and Culture My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Society and Culture
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Society and Culture
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Society and Culture
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "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) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Society and Culture 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Society and Culture
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "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) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Society and Culture This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture
