Ironbridge Horseless Carriage - Licensed Hackney, private and executive cars, offering a taxi and mini coach service. The Mercedes Traveliner Mini -Coaches are ' wheelchair-friendly ' carrying up to 16 passengers in safety and comfort.
Green Wood Trust - Charitable trust promoting the management of woodland. Offering activities, courses in traditional crafts and lists details of forthcoming events in and around Ironbridge.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ironbridge Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Ironbridge
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Ironbridge The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ironbridge
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Ironbridge I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Ironbridge
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Marriage is a rest period between romances. Ironbridge The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Ironbridge
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "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) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Ironbridge My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Ironbridge
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables 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 Ironbridge All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Ironbridge
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Ironbridge "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Ironbridge
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Ironbridge Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Ironbridge
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Ironbridge "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Ironbridge
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Ironbridge The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Ironbridge
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Ironbridge Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Ironbridge
