Wolverton Heritage Group - Town history, featuring listed buildings, the viaduct and the park, from volunteers serving The Wolverton Partnership Regeneration Project, dedicated to conserve locality's special character.
Catholic Parish of Saint Francis de Sales - The parish of St Francis de Sales, Wolverton, is one of eleven parishes in St Paul's Deanery within the Diocese of Northampton. Includes history and parish news.
History of Bushfield Middle School - Information about the building, school life and teachers through the early 1900's to today covering such topics as playtimes, school lunch, uniform and punishments.
Music within the Town over the 1900s - Information about some of the bands and orchestras formed and performing in the town over the past 100 years.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Society and Culture
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Society and Culture "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Society and Culture "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "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 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Society and Culture
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Society and Culture If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Society and Culture
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Society and Culture "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Society and Culture
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Society and Culture
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Society and Culture Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "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." Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Society and Culture
