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Leicestershirelink - Links, news, weather, polls and a discussion forum for Leicestershire folk.
Twycross Zoo - Visitor information, facility map with exhibit descriptions and photos, news, conservation and education program summaries. Includes stories about individual zoo animals.
leicesterWEB - "A community website for Leicestershire". Links and information about the city and county.
Leicestershire County Council - Information about local councillors, plans and strategies. A-Z of services and on line payment for a selection of invoices.
Osgathorpe Parish Council - Information on this village, containing news, photos, and forthcoming events.
About Leicestershire - Guide to the county with virtual tours and a what's on section. Information for tourists and locals alike.
Woodhouse Eaves - News, events, local information and pictures of the village.
Singled Out - 30+ Singles club for East Midlands. Details about the venue, directions, member distribution and internet forum. [Based near Upper Broughton]
Bloxham Project Home page - Information on this project.
Kegworth Village - Comprehensive information about this village.
Husbands Bosworth - Information, news and history of this town, includes the Bosworth Bugle.
Environ - Independent charity working to improve the environment and the community. Provides information about and advice on environmental matters.
www.discoverleicester.com - Guide to the city, including the National Space Centre, where to stay, what's on and places to visit.
Stoke Golding - Birthplace of the Tudor Dynasty - Current and historical information about this village on the outskirts of Hinckley. Local photographs, parish council news and a map of the village.
iLeicestershire - Local news and discussion forums.
Rearsby Village - Contains information about village history, news, services, diary of events, groups, clubs and local businesses.
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Leicestershire An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Leicestershire "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Leicestershire blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Leicestershire Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Leicestershire The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West "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 Leicestershire There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Leicestershire I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Leicestershire Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) 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 Leicestershire Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Leicestershire Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Leicestershire "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Leicestershire "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Leicestershire To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Leicestershire Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde Leicestershire "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Leicestershire 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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Leicestershire "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Leicestershire "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Leicestershire May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson 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 Leicestershire It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Leicestershire This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Leicestershire
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