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Darlington Borough Council - Contains Council vision, contact details, Council services and job opportunities.
Daventry District Council - Contains information about the Council, departments, services, news and events.
Derby City Council - Contains primarily tourist and leisure information.
Derbyshire County Council - Provides information on many aspects of the Council's work.
Derwentside District Council - Aimed at the local population and includes areas for garnering public opinion on services.
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council - Information on Doncaster, the Council, and its services.
Dorset County Council - Information aimed primarily at the local population including schools information and details on the council's structure.
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Includes information on Council and public services as well as tourism and business opportunities.
Durham City Council - Contains information on housing, health, economic development and tourism.
Durham County Council - Provides information on inward investment, tourism, travel and leisure and country life.
Devon County Council - Includes information on travel and tourism, public administration, business and finance, Devon facts and figures and local history.
Dover District Council - Kent. Contains information on tourism, economic development and Council services.
Dartford Borough Council - Kent. Information about the council and its services, local businesses and community resources.
Dacorum Borough Council - Hertfordshire. Forthcoming community events, environmental issues, local democracy and feedback for residents.
Derbyshire Dales District Council - Derbyshire. Contact details, services and tourist information.
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) D Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) D Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson D Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe D "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress D The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter D If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson D I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley D America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) D Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius D The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) D Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde D There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock D Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) D Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington D "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle D Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) 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 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) D "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) D "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman D Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show D The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) D "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 D
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