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The Peel Parishes - A community site for the group of churches near Tamworth, Staffordshire. Includes service times, articles, and links to local sites.
CAB Tamworth - Citizens advice bureau, Contains a list of services, opening times, and contact numbers.
Alan Rodgers - Primary school teacher with weather data.
Tamworth Church Bell Ringers - Contains details of the members, information about the bells, and ringing times.
Friends of Tamworth Castle and Museum - Contains an overview of the castle, a short history, virtual tour, ghost hunt, school projects, membership details, prices, and opening times.
Tamworth Baptist Church - Contains beliefs, history, news, activities, service times, and photo gallery.
Tamworth Elim Church Centre - Contains an overview of the church, events, youth area, day nursery, details of counselling services, testimonies, and plans for the future.
Happy Tots Nursery - OFSTED registered nursery school for children aged 8 months to 8 years. Based in Wilnecote.
St Andrews Methodist Church - Church information, forthcoming and past events, links and magazine. Part of the Tamworth and Lichfield circuit.
The Robert Peel Society - Promotes the study of the life, works and times of Sir Robert Peel, founder of Metropolitan Police. Includes details of museum appeal and contact information.
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "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 Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Society and Culture With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "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 "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston Society and Culture If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Society and Culture Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Society and Culture Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Society and Culture The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Society and Culture 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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Society and Culture Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Society and Culture If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Society and Culture The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture 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 I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards "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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Society and Culture "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Society and Culture 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 Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Society and Culture The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Society and Culture I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Society and Culture Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Society and Culture Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Society and Culture If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Society and Culture
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