Aycliffe Young People's Centre - A controlled community home managed by Durham County Council providing a range of social work, education and training services for young people between the ages of 12 and 18.
National Animal Sanctuaries Support League - Charity that rescues and re-homes animals in the north of England. Features information about available animals and feral cats.
Great Aycliffe Archive - The Great Aycliffe Archive project aims to document the social history of the township of Great Aycliffe. In short, the history from the ordinary persons' point of view.
Aycliffe Village Hall Website - Community website for Aycliffe Village. Featuring all of the latest community events in the area.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Society and Culture
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Society and Culture
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Society and Culture We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Society and Culture
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Society and Culture 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 guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "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." Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Society and Culture
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Society and Culture A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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,
Society and Culture The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position My other wife is beautiful. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Society and Culture
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Society and Culture The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Society and Culture
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Society and Culture Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
