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St Alkmund's Parish Church - Comprehensive information about this church, includes parish magazine, young people groups and history.

Duffield Derbyshire - Information about the community, history and businesses of this village.

Old Duffield - A brief history of the village, its castle and church with some early 20th Century reminiscences.

Rowandean Embroidery - Cross stitch and embroidery kits, courses workshops.

Trinity Methodist Church - Details of services, forthcoming events, photographs and contact.

Duffield Community Association - Local activities and events.

Duffield squash club - News, results and contact details.

Derwent Valley Wind Band - History, news, forthcoming events and contact.

Music At Duffield - Programme, tickets and subscriptions information.

Castle Orchard Cottages - Describes two cottages and their facilities with local attractions and tariff.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Duffield Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Duffield The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Duffield "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Duffield "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Duffield Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Duffield "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields Duffield He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Duffield When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "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 two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Duffield Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Duffield "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Duffield You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Duffield Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Duffield "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Duffield There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Duffield People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Duffield Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Duffield Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Duffield "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Duffield I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Duffield "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Duffield The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Duffield
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