Oldham Bangladeshi Association - Listing various centres and associations connected with this community. Community programmes, members awards and contact details included.
Lees Online - Site featuring information on Lees, Oldham, Greater Manchester, including a business directory, history, local pictures and location.
Saddleworth Online - Events, entertainment, business, service listings and photographs.
Saddleworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire - Aims to maintain the identity of Saddleworth villages as Yorkshire, with an account of the boundary changes which places them in Oldham.
ACE Centre North - Assistive technology and augmentative communication services offered to the North of England, North Wales and Northern Ireland.
Photos of Oldham - Personal web site of modern photographic history of the town.
Saddleworth Film Society - Showing contemporary films. Schedule, venue and membership information.
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-- Samuel Johnson Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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-- Unknown history student Society and Culture
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Katharine Hepburn "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
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-- Frank W. Woolworth Society and Culture I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Society and Culture
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
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-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Society and Culture
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
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-- E. W. Howe You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
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-- Ellen DeGeneres "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Society and Culture
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
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per Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
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-- Rick Radebaugh It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Society and Culture
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
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-- Oscar Wilde Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Society and Culture
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Do or do not. There is no try.
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-- Brendon Behan In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Society and Culture Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Society and Culture
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Society and Culture
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Society and Culture Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
"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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Society and Culture Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Society and Culture
