Soroptimist International Newcastle-under-Lyme - Organisation for women in management and professions. Includes club history, projects and fundraising activities information and photograph gallery.
Silverdale Morris Dancers - Covers the history, structure and workings of a typical girls' Morris dancing troupe. Contains forums for discussions and hints and tips.
Penguins Puppet Ministry - Christian puppet group of St George's Church. Includes highlights from past years.
Wolstanton Methodist Church - Welcome, overview, minister, services, events, newsletter and youth. Part of the Wolstanton and Audley Circuit.
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "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) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Society and Culture
"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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Society and Culture "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Society and Culture
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Society and Culture "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Society and Culture Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Society and Culture Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Society and Culture
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Society and Culture People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Society and Culture Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture
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, Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Society and Culture
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Society and Culture I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Society and Culture
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Society and Culture If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Society and Culture
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Society and Culture
