National Fox Welfare Society - Contains information about the life and habits of the fox, together with health and welfare sections, documents and information about fox protection.
Northampton Cats Protection - Local branch dedicated to the welfare of cats. History and mission of group, volunteer opportunities, events, cats that need homes, lost cats, and happy stories.
Northantsx - Forum serving the county including general discussions and items for sale.
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-- Gilda Radner A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "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 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
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture
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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Society and Culture A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Society and Culture Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Society and Culture
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "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 They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Society and Culture
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman 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 just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Society and Culture
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno 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 Society and Culture
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Society and Culture
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Society and Culture A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Society and Culture 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 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Society and Culture
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
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