National Council for Voluntary Youth Services - Provides details of the membership, publications, activities and policies of this umbrella organisation which represents and supports voluntary organisations working with young people.
Kids Rule OK! - Database of childcare, special events, workshops, attractions, museums and galleries, activities, play gyms, and toddler activities. Covers the selected counties in the East Midlands, Northwest, and Yorkshire.
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- Rudyard Kipling "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Youth "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 A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Youth
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "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) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Youth A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of 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 only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Youth
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Youth If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Youth
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Youth Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Youth
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Youth Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Youth
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards 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 A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Youth "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Youth
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Youth Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Youth
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Youth When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright 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 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Youth
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Youth "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Youth
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell 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 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Youth 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. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Youth
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Youth "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Youth
