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Community Council of Staffordshire - Provides a gateway to local villages and communities sites.
Staffordshire County Guide 2002/2003 - Offers information on government sites, recreation and leisure activities, county maps, economic development, housing and getting married in the area.
Warslow Village - Includes local news, gallery of photographs, events, and shop with online ordering.
Alstonefield - Details of the village itself and local attractions and amenities.
Abbots Bromley.com - Village site offering information for visitors, residents or anyone else interested. Includes history, walks, clubs, and business details.
Gnosall Web - Community website for the village. Includes gallery and local information.
Mow Cop - An Interactive History - Offers details of the history of places and features of the village of Mowcop. Also includes local business directory, genealogy, and guestbook.
Whitehill - Contains news, events, village information and photos.
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Staffordshire The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Staffordshire "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) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died 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 Staffordshire Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Staffordshire The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Staffordshire "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern Staffordshire A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Staffordshire I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Staffordshire .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Staffordshire He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West Staffordshire Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull 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 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Staffordshire "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "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 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Staffordshire There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Staffordshire My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Staffordshire In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Staffordshire A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Staffordshire "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Staffordshire If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Staffordshire "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Staffordshire With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Staffordshire Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Staffordshire Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Staffordshire
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