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High Street Methodist Church - Worship, mission, ministry team, news, church groups, young families, history, events and location. Within the Harpenden circuit.
Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church - Mass times, contact details, parish groups, sacramental programmes, map and directions, history and neighbouring parishes.
Southdown - Methodist church listing worship, activities, mission, prayer, year book and events.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Society and Culture I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Society and Culture When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Society and Culture If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. "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 "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Society and Culture My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Society and Culture Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Society and Culture Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture 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 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Society and Culture The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) 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 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Society and Culture 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 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 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 Society and Culture "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx 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 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Society and Culture "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Society and Culture Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown Society and Culture Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Society and Culture Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
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