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Hereford Nature Trust. - Widlife charity managing 48 county nature reserves.
The Homend - History of the estate at Stretton Grandison with details of the residents' association.
The Music Pool - Everything you ever wanted to know about music in Herefordshire.
Herefordshire Advanced Motorists - Organises modular courses on a regular basis, teaching the theory of Advanced Driving with lectures, videos and quizzes.
Age Concern Herefordshire and Worcestershire - Information on the projects and services provided throughout the two counties.
Clifford Castle - Norman castle originally built by William FitzOsbern in the 11th century. Located near Hay-on-Wye. Includes history and description.
Herefordshire Citizens Advice Bureaux - Offering free and completely independent advice and information on a wide range of subjects at locations throughout the county.
Herefordshire Green Party - Includes press releases, local events, campaigns, Euro and General Election results, newsletter, and information about joining.
Historic Herefordshire On Line - A huge resource from the Herefordshire Sites and Monuments Record. It includes a county history, database of archaeological sites and gazetteers of castles, chapels, prisons and workhouses.
Herefordshire Tenants and Residents Group - Includes latest news, list of housing officers and local councillors, and information on the disability group.
Herefordshire Supported Housing - Details of various projects aiming to help young people in the county.
RSPCA Herefordshire Branch - Local branch of national charity. Information on how to get help, and how to help, including animals needing a new home.
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Society and Culture He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Society and Culture In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson Society and Culture I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale Society and Culture My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Society and Culture "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Society and Culture Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Society and Culture "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Society and Culture I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon Society and Culture A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry Society and Culture It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Society and Culture Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Society and Culture A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Society and Culture
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