Gordon Spence's Corner - Personal site showing pictures and details about the author and his family. Also contains drag racing and soccer information.
1871 (Rugeley) Squadron ATC - Uniformed youth organisation for 13-18 year olds: Contains information about the Squadron, plus details about the Air Training Corps.
Border Collie Trust GB - Offer rescue and re-homing in the United Kingdom. Features Sponsor forms, shop, BCW magazine and boarding kennels.
The Landor Society Of Rugeley - Local history society. Includes history of the society, members, social events and contact information.
Lanrick Cottage - Care for young autistic adults in a normal house, with programmed activities. Information on their philosophy, origins, philosophy, facilities, fee structure and contact details.
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Society and Culture The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Society and Culture
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Society and Culture
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Society and Culture
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "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 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Society and Culture May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Society and Culture Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates 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, Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Society and Culture
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Society and Culture
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, All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Society and Culture A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Society and Culture Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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. Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Society and Culture
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 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 Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
