National Energy Foundation - Organisation striving to improve our environment through energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy accreditation. Information about the foundation and their projects can be found along with energy saving advice and contact details.
County of Milton Keynes - Encyclopedia article about the geographical make up of the County of Milton Keynes.
Linford Wood - A look at an ancient copse which exists in the north of town. History of the wood, its wild life and ecological importance along with mention of wood carvings within and a poem penned by M.M.Taylor.
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Science and Environment A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Science and Environment
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "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) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Science and Environment Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Science and Environment
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Science and Environment The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Science and Environment
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Science and Environment It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Science and Environment
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Science and Environment University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Science and Environment
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Science and Environment I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh 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 Science and Environment
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Science and Environment No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Science and Environment
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Science and Environment If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Science and Environment
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Science and Environment I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Science and Environment
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Science and Environment "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Science and Environment
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
