Peterlee Parachute Centre - Run basic parachute courses and offer instruction in free fall skills. Includes course details, prices, contacts and location.
Our Lady of Lourdes R.C. School - Includes school brochure which provides information on the school aims, staff, and contacts .
Diamond Classic Cars - Wedding cars, chauffeur driven limousines and driving school. Details of range, prices and contact details.
Shotton Karate Club - KUGB affiliated club. Details of club, training, membership, glossary, guest book and events.
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Shotton "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "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) Shotton
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Shotton Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "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 do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Shotton A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Shotton
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Shotton Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Shotton
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Shotton The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Shotton
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Shotton I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Shotton
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Shotton The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Shotton
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Shotton 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 "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 Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Shotton
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Shotton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Shotton
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Shotton I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Shotton
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Shotton Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "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 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 Shotton
