Dacorum Volunteer Bureau - An agency offering information and guidance on volunteering opportunities and promoting good practice in the management of volunteers.
The King Harry Coffee Tavern - A temperance establishment founded by Quakers in 1880. History of the tavern from 1649 to current times.
Salvation Army - Includes news, activities, worship schedule, special events, prayer requests, and contacts.
Gadebridge Baptist Church - An independent evangelical baptist church. Events, beliefs, location and photos.
Buddha Community - Information of Buddhism and events throughout the UK plus a community newsletter and courses at the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in Great Gaddesden.
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Society and Culture
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Society and Culture My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Society and Culture
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Society and Culture
"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 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Society and Culture
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Society and Culture
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Society and Culture
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Society and Culture The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Society and Culture
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Society and Culture
