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BBC Lancashire Online - News, sport, information and features from the BBC for Lancashire. Part of the BBC's new Open Centre project in the county.
Lancashire Information Network Kiosks - Information on local communities, tourism and services.
Lancashire Link List - A directory of links including places to visit, history, churches and religion, education, sports, entertainment and community service.
Lancashire Online - Online directory listing history, towns, pubs and museums.
This is Lancashire - County-wide news, sports, local information, what's on, leisure guide, tourism, web directory, holiday offers, schools guide, good pubs guide, and wedding guide. Offers free webpages to community organisations. Also imports functionality from the Fish4 network for local cars, homes and jobs.
Safer Lancashire - Providing advice and information on protecting yourself and your property, including useful organisations.
Atherton Online - History, features and photographs of the area.
Smithy Bridge Community Site - Guide and web directory covering accommodation, community resources, local facilities, activities, events and local history.
ItsInLancashire - Includes events, attractions, business directory and a guide to towns and villages.
Tarleton Hesketh Bank - Community website for the villages of Tarleton, Becconsall and Hesketh Bank. Includes local history, events, business directory and news.
Rufford village - Community Website with discussion board, news, businesses and events.
Lancashire Villages - Directory of Lancashire Village websites and local information sites.
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 The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Guides and Directories Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Guides and Directories In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Guides and Directories "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Guides and Directories "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Guides and Directories Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Guides and Directories When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Guides and Directories It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Guides and Directories "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Guides and Directories The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Guides and Directories Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Guides and Directories Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Guides and Directories To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Guides and Directories The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Guides and Directories The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson 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) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Guides and Directories "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Guides and Directories Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Guides and Directories The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Guides and Directories "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Guides and Directories
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