Oultwood: Bedfordshire - Directory of local government web sites using clickable maps and lists.
Bedfordshire County Council - Site includes environmental, business, leisure, tourism, transport and local service information.
South Bedfordshire District Council - Provides information for citizens, visitors and businesses in Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard and Houghton Regis including places to visit, council services and grants.
Community Planning in Bedfordshire - Community planning forums for Mid, North and South Bedfordshire. Find out about local issues and how to give your own opinion.
Bedfordshire and Luton Compact - Initiative aimed at developing a better working partnership between local voluntary and community organisations and statutory agencies.
"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 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Government I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Government
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Government I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Government
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Government "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Government
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Government If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Government
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Government Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Government
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Government If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Government
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Government
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 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Government How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Government
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Government My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Government
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard 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 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Government "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Government
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Government Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Government
