Clowne Methodist Church - Offers service and worship details, young people, policy on safeguarding children, history, location and contacts. In the Bolsover and Staveley circuit.
Clowne Ladies FC - Teams, pitches, rules, news, links, and contacts.
Clowne Road Runners - Only running club in the village. meetings, notices, events, awards and photos.
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Clowne "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Clowne
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Clowne It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Clowne
"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 "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Clowne Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Clowne
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Clowne "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Clowne
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Clowne "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Clowne
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Clowne "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Clowne
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Clowne No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Clowne
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Clowne "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Clowne
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Clowne A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Clowne
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it 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 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Clowne "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 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Clowne
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Clowne "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." The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Clowne
