Codsall Community Website - Provides general information about the village, including events, clubs, pictures and a community noticeboard.
Codsall & Bilbrook History Society - Includes a history of Codsall, and information on forthcoming meetings, events, and available publications.
St Nicholas Church - Anglican parish church. Information on services, events, weddings, baptisms, and beliefs. Includes contact information and location details.
Codsall Wood Village Website - The village website, providing information about local events, especially the annual Codsall Wood Show.
Codsall Dramatic Society - Local amateur dramatics society which puts on several plays each year. Includes information on past and present performances.
Codsall Lau Gar Club - Information about this Kung Fu club, including contact details, meeting times and place and the coaches.
"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) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "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) Codsall My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley 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 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Codsall
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST 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 "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Codsall Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Codsall
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Codsall "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Codsall
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Codsall "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Codsall
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Codsall I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Codsall
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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Codsall You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Codsall
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Codsall Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Codsall
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Codsall blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Codsall
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Codsall If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 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 I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Codsall
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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Codsall Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Codsall
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Codsall "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Codsall
