DanSing Music - Music courses, and voice and guitar workshops.
Great Escape Ballooning - Providing hot-air balloon flights over Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire for the private and corporate community.
The Projector Group - Specialists in transportation and handling of heavy and out of gauge process plant and equipment.
Pine Antiques - Specialists in antique pine and quality gifts.
The Corner Shop - Details of the services available from this community store.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Business and Economy One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Business and Economy
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Business and Economy [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy 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 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Business and Economy
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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-- H. L. Mencken Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Business and Economy "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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) Business and Economy A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Business and Economy
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 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 Business and Economy "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Business and Economy
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Business and Economy
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Business and Economy The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Business and Economy
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Business and Economy Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas 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 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Business and Economy
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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Business and Economy Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Business and Economy
