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Swindon BusinessNet - Business news and company listings.
Humanist Ceremonies - Accredited officiants of the British Humanist Association.
Friends of Swindon Railway Museum - The official charitable organisation that supports the Great Western Railway Museum. Includes online Newsletters, photographs, events diary and membership details.
Swindon and District Animal Haven - Charity that rescues unwanted and abused pets. A sanctuary for all animals.
Options Plus - A disabled living centre, offers assessment, advice and information on equipment and services for independent living for people with a disability, their family and carers.
London Street Gay Club - Swindon's best gay and lesbian club
Swindon Animal Sanctuary Appeal - Charity raising money to build an animal sanctuary locally. Features animals awaiting homes and re-homing successes.
House.Audio-Stream.net - Garage music site. Streaming downloads, image gallery and information on the site.
Steam - Museum of the Great Western Railway - News, visitor information, details of model engines for sale in museum shop.
Swindon Mum - Local information for parents with children under 10 years old.
GHBC Pram Club - Under 5's group meeting at Gorse Hill Baptist Church. Parenting, local and Christian links, toddler crafts and club news.
Gamblers Anonymous Swindon - Information about meeting times and locations, news, life stories and contact details.
Wanborough Bellringers - Information and history about the bells, competition news, location details and photographs.
Swindon Torun Meeting Place - Friendship and co-operation agreement between the towns. Information about the agreement, news and contact details.
Strictly Strays Medical Fund - Charity raising money for stray dogs requiring treatment. Information, photographs of animals that have been helped,
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason Society and Culture "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Society and Culture If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Society and Culture Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence Society and Culture Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Society and Culture 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 "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre Society and Culture "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Society and Culture "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde 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 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Society and Culture 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 one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Society and Culture It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan 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 Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Society and Culture Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Society and Culture Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Society and Culture Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Society and Culture When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Society and Culture Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford Society and Culture Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Society and Culture I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great Society and Culture Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Society and Culture The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Society and Culture Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
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