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Sheila Pendrick - Some local photos and information for teachers of the deaf.
Spondon On-Line - News and information for Spondon, Derby. Business listings, community groups, what's on guide, local news and more, all regularly updated.
Spondon Online - Includes regional features, travel, news and sport, pictures, music charts, catchphrase, jokes and the Internet radio station Juices Radio.
HTC (UK) Ltd - Offer new and used cars, also contract-hire and car leasing for businesses, photographs and prices.
Spondon Community Association - Details of local events, news letter and village hall information.
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Spondon Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Spondon "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Spondon It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Spondon "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Spondon Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Spondon "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth "... 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) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Spondon We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Spondon 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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Spondon Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Spondon An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Spondon Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Spondon It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 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, The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Spondon "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Spondon I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Spondon In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Spondon If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Spondon Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Spondon Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Spondon "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Spondon 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 I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Spondon The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Spondon
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