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Oakengates Swimming Club - Information including swimmer's personal best times, results from open meets, speedo league competitions and galas.
Oakengates Town - Oakengates, its people, pubs, shops, amenities, restaurants, services, health and history.
Green Oakengates - Environmental information including opportunities for local community involvement, funding opportunities, Telford and Wrekin LA21, where to buy green, and what can be recycled and where.
The Salvation Army - The local corps of the national body, offering information about weekly events, news, activities and links.
2nd Oakengates Boys Brigade - Information about history, activities, and local church.
Oakengates Theatre - Shows and events. Information on what's on, seating plan and how to book.
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Oakengates "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Oakengates "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Oakengates One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy Oakengates "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Oakengates "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Oakengates I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Oakengates "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "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) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Oakengates Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Oakengates I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Oakengates I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Oakengates 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 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Oakengates The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Oakengates Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Oakengates A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Oakengates It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Oakengates Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Oakengates Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Oakengates "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Oakengates "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Oakengates 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 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon Oakengates "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Oakengates
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