The French Wine People - Providing wines and gifts for trade and retail. Includes company profile, price list, location and contact details.
Wrights Agricultural Contractors - Agricultural and land drainage contractor also providing details of landscaping and reinstatement work.
Matlock Business - Information about businesses in the local area.
Masson Mills - A textile museum with shops, conference room and restaurant.
Matlock Ford - Offering new and second hand Ford cars with delivery throughout the UK. Access to over 3000 vehicles.
Matlock Mercury - Weekly newspaper for Matlock and the surrounding area.
Ennis Coaches - Family based coach operator. Fleet list with photos and details of services.
Sally Botham Estate Agents - Offering a range of properties throughout the county, photographs and prices.
Derbyshire Ensemble - Group producing musical theatre, drama, choral music and orchestral music. Project details, tickets, audition information and youth opportunities.
Pre-Eminence - Manufacturers of hand crafted bespoke furniture for the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and study.
ALS Scaffolding Ltd - Providing scaffold erection and contract services. Includes pictures and service information.
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- Oscar Wilde "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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-- P. J. O'Rourke "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast Matlock Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Matlock
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Matlock That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt What's new? Most of my wife. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Matlock
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Matlock The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Matlock
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Matlock Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Matlock
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "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) 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 perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Matlock "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Matlock
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Matlock Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Matlock
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Matlock Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Matlock
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 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
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-- Gen. George I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Matlock Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Matlock
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Matlock No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Matlock
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Matlock Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Matlock
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Matlock Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
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