Animals At Risk Shelter - No-kill rescue home. Includes pet care advice and a lost and found section.
Luton Scouts - Directory of Scout groups. Includes a section for each district and the groups within it.
Luton Music Club - Promotes classical music concerts at Luton Library. Includes calendar of events, ticketing information and a location map.
Luton Salvation Army - International Organisation that is both a Christian Church and a Registered Charity. Describes the Army's work in Luton.
Feline Cat Rescue - A registered charity rescuing abandoned, unwanted, abused and feral cats and kittens. Fund raising information, contact details and cats needing homes.
Kacchina - Community forum for the free party scene, details of events and downloads.
Luton LGBT Steering Group - Luton, UK based initiative intended to help identify needs for support services and community services, for the LGBT community.
Social Needs Awareness Project - Arts and photography for socially excluded young people. Profile, projects and photo gallery.
Luton Mediation - Free and independent service to help resolve all varieties of neighbour disputes.
Operation TAT - Collecting food parcels and other essentials to send to troops in the Gulf.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Society and Culture A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Society and Culture There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Society and Culture
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Society and Culture This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Society and Culture While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Society and Culture In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Society and Culture
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Society and Culture "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Society and Culture
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture 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 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture
