Family Friends - The charity's aim is to help and support families with children aged 5 to 11 years old living in the area.
Mark Owens - Biographical details, encounters with celebrities, hobbies, and accounts of travels.
Caia Park - Community development and training organisation. Includes information about courses.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Society and Culture
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Society and Culture It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Society and Culture I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Society and Culture By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Society and Culture Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Society and Culture
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro 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.
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Society and Culture
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Society and Culture Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney 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) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller 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 The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Society and Culture Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Society and Culture
