The Parish Website - This site illustrates the Parish way of life and bring together some of the resources that exist on the Internet for enhancing the web surfing experience. West Dean Parish Council.
Salisbury Green Party - Election news, press releases, contacts, events, and information on the Save Stonehenge campaign.
No. 47 The Close - Archaeological works carried out during refurbishment of the building known as No. 47 within the Cathedral Close during 1999.
Laverstock - The community site for Laverstock, Ford, Old Sarum and Hampton Park (Bishopdown Farm). Local news for local people.
Bertie Come Home - Site dedicated to a lost dog, contains information on last known sighting and the dog itself.
Sarum Trefoil Guild - Local Group, contains information and photographs of events and history of the group.
Manaraefan - Viking re-enactment society. Contains details and photos of the group as well as information about Vikings.
Bemerton Local History Group - Group researching and recording the history of Bemerton. Information on Bemerton and events.
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Society and Culture With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Society and Culture "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Society and Culture To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Society and Culture
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 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
cr You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Society and Culture
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Society and Culture "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Society and Culture "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Society and Culture
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Society and Culture
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Society and Culture "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Society and Culture
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 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 "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Society and Culture Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Society and Culture
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Society and Culture Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
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