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Wiltshire Scouts Online - Locate information on the Districts and groups within the County. Also included training diary and various events that have happened or are happening now. A discussion area where Scouters can leave messages and requests for information and or programme ideas is also provided.
Wiltshire Rape Support Line - A registered charity that provides a free and confidential service supporting both male and female survivors of rape, childhood abuse, any type of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Northern Area Community Plan - A site of links and information for the Northern Area Community Plan of Salisbury District Council and the South Wiltshire Stategic Alliance.
Moonrakers - Dedicated to the genealogy and history of Wiltshire. Includes photographs and county information.
Voluntary Action, Kennet - Organisation supporting charities in the Kennet area explains its work and the groups it is involved with.
Provincial Grand Lodge of Wiltshire - Includes history, events and contacts.
Woolley Tales - Tim Twyford's home page with brief overviews of the towns of Bradford-on-Avon, Westwood and Winsley.
South Wiltshire Community Web - An online community resource, funded by the Government Pathfinder project, providing local residents with the opportunity to create their own website for free.
Window on Wiltshire's Heritage - Aims to make the county's archaeology, architecture, art, and nature, as well as material from the county's museums, archives, and local studies collections more accessible.
AJ's Wiltshire Weirdness Gallery - Photographs focusing predominantly on crop circles.
Wilts and Berks Canal Trust - Registered charity. News, history and images.
Wiltshire Heritage - Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Activities, details of the museum, gallery and library, and research information.
PrideWest - Gay information and reference site. News, forums, and classified advertisements.
New Mill and Network's Rail's 12 Storey Mast - A campaign to prevent Network Rail from erecting a 110-foot GSM-R microwave mast in an area of outstanding natural beauty in Wiltshire.
Safety Cameras in Wiltshire and Swindon - Locations of fixed and mobile cameras, as well as road safety advice, accident statistics and contact details.
Wiltshire Family History Society - Meeting times, fundraising information, membership fees, upcoming events and contact details, as well as a glossary of local expressions and old photographs of the county.
Drumbeat - Local garrison newsletter. Archive and links.
Wildlife Rescue - A voluntary organisation operating in and around Wiltshire. Includes helpline, emergency call-out, feeding and care, news, photographs, and an appeal for help to build a new animal hospital.
Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung 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. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Society and Culture The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) What's new? Most of my wife. "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) 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 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 Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings May you never leave your marriage alive. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois 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 "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) Society and Culture Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Society and Culture "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Society and Culture "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Society and Culture What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Society and Culture I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Society and Culture The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Society and Culture If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Society and Culture "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Society and Culture Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Society and Culture Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Society and Culture Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins 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 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Society and Culture Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture
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