Cromford Village in Derbyshire - A listing of the village shops, businesses and community facilities. Includes walks in the village and a look at its history.
Peak District Treasure Hunt - Information about this regularly held game. Hunters download the clues then solve the hunt in local villages around the area.
Derby Ghost Watchers Association - Investigates paranormal activity around the county. Includes profiles of group members, planned events and investigation reports.
Derbyshire Archaeological Society - Founded in 1878 it now encompasses archaeological research, architecture, industrial archaeological and local history in addition to the activities of the main Society
Nine Ladies Stone Circle - Campaign to preserve the ancient monument. Includes photos, mission statement and contacts.
Swadlincote Community Transport - Provides a service for anyone in the South Derbyshire area who has difficulty using public transport.
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
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-- Unknown history student Society and Culture Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Society and Culture
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Society and Culture "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Society and Culture Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Society and Culture
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Society and Culture
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait 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 Society and Culture The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Society and Culture As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Society and Culture
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson 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 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Society and Culture Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Society and Culture "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
