The Staffordshire Men - Play and sing a blend of Irish, English, Scottish and Australian traditional folk music. Contains details of the members, a music sample, and gig guide.
Heart Galleries - Specialising in limited edition art. Includes events and contact details. Based in Swinfen. [Flash]
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Arts and Entertainment Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
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 There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Arts and Entertainment
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Arts and Entertainment Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Arts and Entertainment 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Arts and Entertainment
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) May you never leave your marriage alive. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Arts and Entertainment Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Arts and Entertainment
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Arts and Entertainment
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment 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 Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Arts and Entertainment I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Arts and Entertainment
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Arts and Entertainment Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Arts and Entertainment
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Arts and Entertainment I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Arts and Entertainment
