Harborough District Council Online - Information on council services, economic overview, places to visit and the community. Forms and documents can be downloaded.
Leicester City Council - Discover who your councillor is, find details of the hundreds of services run by the council, look at what jobs are currently available.
Leicestershire Careonline - Details of support, advice and information for adults living in Harborough District. Links through to other areas.
Leicestershire County Council - Site aims to bring key information about the area's attractions and services to visitors, local residents, and business investors.
Oultwood: Leicestershire - Directory of local government council web site links using clickable maps and lists.
National Statistics - Neighbourhood Statistics - Search a comprehensive range of official UK statistics and information about statistics. Provides free access to a selection of publications and press releases in downloadable formats.
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Government In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Government
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Government If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Government
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Government Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Government
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. 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 Government Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President 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. A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Government
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Government Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Government
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Government With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Government
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Government I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Government
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Government "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Government
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Government "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Government
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Government I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Government
