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Peak-Net - Tourist, local and business information for the Peak counties of East Cheshire, South Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
English Place Name Information Service - Find out the meaning of any UK English place-name, including the original language elements involved when the name was first used. If you can't find a reference, the site owner offers to do some research on your behalf.
North of England Online - Covers Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Cleveland and Cumbria. Includes business, transport and government links.
County Focus - Area guide for counties in the Eastern, South Eastern and South Western regions, with information on where to go, what to do and what to see.
local.angle - A collection of local portals for England, including local pub reviews, school information, free ads, cinema listings and job advertisments.
Surf Business Directory - Features search by type or business name. South East London and Kent.
NeatSite - Business directory with local events, maps, and support resources for local businesses.
In The Bizz - Directory covering Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and South Humberside.
Thames Valley Business - Listing businesses in Thames Valley Region.
England's Portal - Features a searchable directory, message boards and articles on the country and the English people.
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Guides and Directories Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell 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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Guides and Directories The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Guides and Directories Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Guides and Directories I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Guides and Directories It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Guides and Directories A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Guides and Directories There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Guides and Directories 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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Guides and Directories "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Guides and Directories Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright Guides and Directories The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley 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 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Guides and Directories Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Guides and Directories Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Guides and Directories "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Guides and Directories Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha "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) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous Guides and Directories Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Guides and Directories
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