Teesdale Community Resources - Promoting any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community of Teesdale by bringing together volunteers, in particular aged between 14 and 25, and organisations in a common effort to advance education, protect health, relieve poverty, sickness and distress. Calendar, opportunities, committees and projects.
Kinninvie - Photographic images from the hamlet with humorous descriptions.
Romaldkirk - Information and pictures for this unspoilt village in the North Pennines.
Teesdale Village Halls Consortium - Information on what is happening in and around village halls and community centres in the district. Includes a listing of the halls and events .
St Mary's Parish Church Barnard Castle with Whorlton - Explore the 900 year history of this parish with its links to King Richard III and the Durham Light Infantry. Take a virtual tour of the church. [some feature require Java plug-in]
Cockfield and Woodland History - Includes a short history, extracts from directories, details of publications and research links .
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Society and Culture What's new? Most of my wife. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France 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 Society and Culture
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture "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 If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Society and Culture Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Society and Culture The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Society and Culture "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Society and Culture If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Society and Culture I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Society and Culture
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Society and Culture
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Society and Culture
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Society and Culture "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
