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Swindonlink - Local directory and community news, including a forum and online debates.
SwindonWeb - Includes local web directory, what's on, leisure guide, information about local shopping, town guide and maps, information about Swindon Town FC, and local jobs.
SwindonEvent - Forthcoming events including cinema, exhibitions and clubs.
Swindon.Org.UK - Local information site features news, chat, forums, ads, and employment notices. Free websites available.
Railwaytown.com - Charity raising funds for sufferers of mesothelioma in the town.
The New Swindon Company - Urban regeneration organisation. Mission statement, news, contact details and information about planned developments.
Swindon on the Web - Business directory and portal offering event listings, local news articles, and games.
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Swindon ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Swindon We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Swindon Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Swindon "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Swindon We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Swindon A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Swindon And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Swindon 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" "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) 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. -- Crow "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Swindon Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Swindon Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Swindon Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Swindon There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Swindon Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Swindon All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Swindon Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Swindon There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Swindon My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Swindon If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet 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 Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Swindon Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Swindon "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Swindon Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Swindon
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