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Stanley Taxis - Operate a fleet of 28 four to eight seat taxis and 40 Mini buses and coaches. Also includes timetable information for local bus service routes .
Stanley Camera Club - Club history, location and contacts, programme, news and pictures by members.
South Stanley Green Corridor - Community project to improve woodland. Includes description and map, environmental and community benefits, and management .
Jeff Piper's Web Pages - Personal site of local resident. Pictures of area plus family and local history.
Stanley Library - Offers a lending service of books, compact discs, cassettes, maps, music scores and books in large print. Provides information on opening times, book and audio collections, and books for sale .
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Stanley There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Stanley "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Stanley "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) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Stanley Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Stanley I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Stanley Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Stanley Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Stanley Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones 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, Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Stanley Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce 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 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce Stanley I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Stanley There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Stanley The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Stanley Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Stanley "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, When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Stanley "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Stanley When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Stanley True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Stanley Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Stanley Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Stanley Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Stanley You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Stanley
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