Lichfield Cathedral Choir - Contains an introduction, discography, current and archived music lists. Also includes information about the cathedral organ with pictures, and history.
Rock Cottage - Details of district arts association, morris men, Lichfield and Hatherton Canal restoration, Claymills Pumping Engines Trust, Friends of Sandfields pumping station, local genealogy pages and T.P. Riley School history.
RAF Lichfield Association - Dedicated to all those Service and Civilian men and women who served at RAF Lichfield from 1939 until its closure in 1958. Includes history and photos.
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-- Oscar Wilde Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Society and Culture "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 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 Society and Culture blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society and Culture
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Society and Culture "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture
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 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Society and Culture "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Society and Culture
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Society and Culture Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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) Society and Culture
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society and Culture
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous 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) 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 Society and Culture In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Society and Culture Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
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I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Society and Culture Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture
