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Belper. Derbyshire - An insight into the history of Belper plus some local information.
Belper Town Council - A web site for the residents of Belper giving details of Belper Town Council
East Lodge in focus - Feature on a 1795 Belper lodge built by G B Strutt and its links with Pawtucket, USA.
The Lion Hotel - Comprehensive information and photos, of services provided at this 3 star hotel.
The Black Swan Belper - Photograph, location map and contact details.
Belper Shops - Information about businesses, services and markets in this area.
Alderwasley Hall School - Provides specialist residential and day education for children of primary and secondary school age with speech, language and communication difficulties. Includes information on education, therapy and assessment procedures. Located near Belper.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Belper "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Belper "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Belper It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Belper ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Belper A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Belper The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Belper The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Belper "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Belper "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 Belper Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Belper "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin Belper Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Belper And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Belper If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Belper 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. -- Crow He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Belper "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Belper Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Belper "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein 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 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Belper "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Belper Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Belper She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Belper
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