Bedfordshire Police - Describes the force and its policing plan. Includes tips for improving driving and security.
Luton Churches Directory - A non-denominational, non-sectarian listing of all the churches and Christian organisations in the Luton and Dunstable area.
Mid Bedfordshire Citizens Advice Bureau - Free and impartial advice. Describes aims and services. Includes information on volunteering and location maps of the Ampthill and Biggleswade offices.
Operation Scorpion - Advice, missing persons, appeals for help and news from Bedfordshire Police.
Bedfordshire Police Partnership Trust - A registered charity, funded by donations and annual subscriptions from local businesses. Its principal aim is to improve the quality of life for people by supporting community initiatives. Lists news, fundings, links and contact details.
RSPCA - Bedfordshire South Branch - A branch of the RSPCA run locally by volunteers. Information on campaigns, fostering, news, events and contact details.
Mid Beds Council for Voluntary Service - Umbrella organisation for voluntary and community groups. Details of advice and support services, including sources of funding and potential volunteers. Directory of member organisations.
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Society and Culture Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Society and Culture
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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 "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture 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 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Society and Culture
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Society and Culture
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Society and Culture Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Society and Culture Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Society and Culture
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Society and Culture Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Society and Culture
"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 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 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Society and Culture
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "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) Society and Culture
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
