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Bill L's Web Page - Personal homepage, with history and photos of the town, plus information about local attractions and events.
Filey casualties - A site dedicated to the men of Filey who fell in the two world wars and those who died in Filey whilst serving there. Includes commemoration details, photograph archive, commentries and additional features.
Filey Bay and Surrounding Activities - Information and pictorial of local interest from a local Filey person with concentration on aspects of life associated with the Sea the bay and 'Coble Landing', such as the RNLI Boat House, and Coble Preservation Society.
Filey Lifeboat Station - Information about he station and the area it covers, plus a history, fundraising events and photos.
Notes from a Filey Garden - Personal home page of a gardener in Filey. Includes sketches.
Filey Brigg - Project to conserve the wildlife and geology of the brigg. Information about the area, photos and links.
Filey Brigg Ornithological Group - Group of ornithologists with an observatory near Filey Brigg. Contains information about the group and their activities.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Society and Culture Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Society and Culture It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review Society and Culture The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Society and Culture I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Society and Culture "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Society and Culture What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Society and Culture The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur "'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) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Society and Culture I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Society and Culture If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th Society and Culture Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Society and Culture The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since Society and Culture There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Society and Culture If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Society and Culture
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