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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - St Albans RSPB Members Group, organising birding events in and around Hertfordshire, England and fund raising for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Round Table 147 - Details of Programme, Officers, St Albans Carnival and associated organisations - Ladies Circle and 41 Club.
St Albans Archaeology and History - Archaeologist Chris Saunders provides an interactive tour of medieval St Albans, via clickable map, a chronology of the city once Roman Verulamium and later a rich abbey, and some pub histories.
Alzheimer's Society - Local information about services available in the St Albans area for people with dementia and people who care for them.
Polaris - St.Albans Science Fiction Society detailing when and where they meet and links of interest.
St Albans Bach Choir - Performing in St Albans Cathedral. General information, future programme and ticket sales.
The Tims Family in St Albans - Includes family photographs and history plus historical information and photographs of the city.
Open Door - Emergency night shelter and day centre. Information about what the centre does, how much it costs to run and how to help or to be helped.
A Brief History of St Albans - Describes significant stages in its development from Roman times to the present day.
St Albans Junior Chamber - Organisation for aspiring business or professional people between the ages of 18 and 40 who want to improve and practise their business, cultural, community and social skills
St Albans Liberal Democrats - Lists district and county councillors with ward news, history and membership information.
St. Albans Probus Club - Club for retired professional and business men. News, meeting schedule, committee members, past and planned visits and maps showing location.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Society and Culture In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Society and Culture An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all 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 An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Society and Culture First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Society and Culture The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Society and Culture Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Society and Culture I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Society and Culture "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Society and Culture There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Society and Culture I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Society and Culture "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 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Society and Culture Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 Society and Culture All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso 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 Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Society and Culture 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 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Society and Culture Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "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 Society and Culture There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Society and Culture "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Society and Culture History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along Society and Culture
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