Blaydon Mind - Local office of mental health charity with services aimed at all Gateshead Borough residents. Details of counselling service, befriending scheme and drop-in coffee shop.
Gateshead Crossroads - Support organisation for people who care for others. Offers advice and details of Gateshead Carers Centre.
Disability Gateshead - Voluntary organisation and charity run by and for local disabled people. Information about local disability groups and an on-line guide to independent living.
Gateshead Access Panel - Disability access consultants and pressure group. Publications, information on training, auditing and volunteer opportunities.
Chowdene Labour Party - Branch of Gateshead East and Washington West Labour Party. Contacts for local party, councillors, MP. Newsletter with details of work of Labour Group on Gateshead Metropolitan Borough.
The Soundroom - A community music facility offering low cost services to local community groups and residents.
Blaydon and Winlaton Pictures - Photographic scenes, potted history and local information. Compiled by Frank Gillings.
Et Cetera - News and links from Gateshead Public Libraries on what is claimed to be the first library weblog in the UK.
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Society and Culture A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Society and Culture
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Society and Culture
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Society and Culture Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Society and Culture
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Society and Culture When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Society and Culture If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Society and Culture Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Society and Culture
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "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) Society and Culture "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "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
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Society and Culture
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Society and Culture Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
