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Bedfordshire Web - A directory for business services, properties, cars and what's on.

BBC Three Counties - The Where-I-Live website for Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire; contains news, sport, entertainment, clubbing plus active forums and competitions.

Bedfordshire Online - Contains news, sport and entertainment in the county. Includes searchable databases of jobs, motors, property and business.

Bedfordshire.net - Collection of categorised web links, classified advertisements and live chat.

You and Your Community - Everyday information from Bedfordshire Libraries for people who live, study or work in the county. Includes education, environment, careers, jobs, health, housing, government and law.

Wikipedia - Bedfordshire - A description of the county, principal urban areas and places of interest.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Guides and Directories "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Guides and Directories The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "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) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Guides and Directories "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Guides and Directories The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Guides and Directories 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Guides and Directories "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Guides and Directories Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Guides and Directories "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Guides and Directories Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Guides and Directories "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning Guides and Directories Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Guides and Directories "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Guides and Directories It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Guides and Directories "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Guides and Directories Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Guides and Directories Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Guides and Directories That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Guides and Directories Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Guides and Directories I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Guides and Directories
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