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Robert Kilpin - Pictures, links, contact and information about Robert Kilpin.
Friends of Delapre Abbey - Campaigns to protect the Abbey from commercial development. Profile, history, photo gallery and information about membership.
Northampton Veggies - Newsletter and diary details of the local festival, along with information for vegetarians and vegans.
Animals in Need - Caring for and rehabilitating sick, injured, trapped and distressed wild and domestic animals in Northamptonshire. Overview, ambulance, news and how to help.
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Society and Culture I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Society and Culture When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato 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 Society and Culture It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Society and Culture I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Society and Culture A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Society and Culture "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Society and Culture Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Society and Culture Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln 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 Society and Culture We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Society and Culture Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Society and Culture "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley 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 Society and Culture With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West Society and Culture In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Society and Culture Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch Society and Culture There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle Society and Culture The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot "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) 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 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins Society and Culture I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Society and Culture
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