The Rotary Club of Consett - Raise money for charitable causes. Includes meetings and activities, current projects, a photograph gallery, and contacts .
Consett Christ Church - Offers services for weddings, funerals, christenings and confimations. Includes a photograph gallery and a week in the life of the church .
Delves Lane Village Hall - Includes a range of information on activities, groups, committee, and contacts .
Consett Iron Company - History and description of Consett Iron Works with a collection of photographic images.
Christ Church - Anglican Church in centre of town. Details of services, staff, guestbook and event calendar.
Harrison Reed Kitchens - Suppliers and installers of kitchens. Contact details and pictures of examples.
Consett Brass Band - A community-based brass band with three sections: senior, junior and learners. The band plays in local parks, concerts and for charities. Concert schedule and booking information.
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Consett blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) 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. Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Consett
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Consett You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Consett
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet 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 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Consett The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Consett
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Consett Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Consett
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Consett What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Consett
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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,
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Consett "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Consett
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Consett Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Consett
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 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Consett It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Consett
"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 wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Consett UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Consett
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Consett Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese 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, Consett
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Consett I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Consett
