Wirksworth Parish Records 1600-1900 - Substantial database of baptisms, marriages, burials, census entries, pedigrees, MIs, crimes, wills and local histories.
LARC-Audio - Produce granite and limestone Hi-Fi support systems. Speaker stands and isolation plinths. Product and material information.
R G Millward - Plant hire and contracting for construction work. Details of clients and services offered.
Wirksworth Festival - Details about Wirksworth (Arts) Festival every Septmeber
Wirksworth Business - Portal that gives 'yellow page' information on some local businesses.
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Wirksworth There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Wirksworth
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Wirksworth I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Wirksworth
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Wirksworth When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Wirksworth
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Wirksworth Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Wirksworth
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "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 Wirksworth I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Wirksworth
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Wirksworth We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Wirksworth
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Wirksworth Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Wirksworth
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is a rest period between romances. Wirksworth "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wirksworth
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Wirksworth We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Wirksworth
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Wirksworth We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Wirksworth
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Wirksworth "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Wirksworth
