Oultwood: Staffordshire - Directory of local government council web site links using clickable maps and lists.
Staffordshire Web - Staffordshire County Council site includes A-Z of council services, information on all council departments, councillors, and links to all other local government sites in the county.
Staffordshire Police - Contains details of the force, news, crime appeals, career information, and crime prevention.
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council - Contains news, corporate plans and performance, maps of the area, customer service, events diary, and local authority contact numbers.
Staffordshire Probation Area - Details of probation supervision, offender behaviour programmes and specialist support services which can stop people committing further offences.
East Staffordshire Borough Council - Includes information on places to visit, sports and recreation, wining and dining, accommodation, entertainment and shopping.
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Government Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Government
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin May you never leave your marriage alive. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Government Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Government
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "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) Government If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Government
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Government This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Government
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Government Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Government
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Government "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Government
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Government Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Government
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Government One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "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) Government
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Government "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Government
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Government The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Government
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Government Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
