Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - The trust run Kelham Island Museum, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and Shepherd Wheel. Includes information about the exhibits at each site as well as details of opening hours, special events and educational visits.
Fire and Police Museum - Information about the museum, which is housed in a Victorian fire station in the city centre. Includes a guide to the exhibits, a brief history of the museum and details of openening times.
Turner Museum of Glass - Guide to the museum, which is situated within the University of Sheffield. Details about the collections and recent acquisitions are included, alongside information for visitors.
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Travel and Tourism "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Epicurus There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Travel and Tourism If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Mahatma Gandhi Travel and Tourism
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
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-- Cesare Pavese Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Travel and Tourism "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Travel and Tourism
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Travel and Tourism The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Travel and Tourism
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 don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "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) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Travel and Tourism Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Travel and Tourism
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 It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel and Tourism The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Travel and Tourism
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Travel and Tourism You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Travel and Tourism
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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 Travel and Tourism Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Travel and Tourism Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Travel and Tourism
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Travel and Tourism Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Travel and Tourism
