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2c South Shields - What's on listings, free ads, virtual reality tour, business directory and discussion forum.
Ken's World - Personal site featuring biographical and family information, along with photos of the area.
South Shields Sanddancers - Photos of the town and people, as well as information on food, accommodation, sports, businesses, entertainment and transport. Noticeboard, competitions, weather and games are also included.
South Tyneside Today - News, sport, what's on and features archive from the Shields Gazette newspaper
South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade - Offers a life saving service on the coastline between the Wear and the Tyne. Information on history, activities and contacts.
Katy Sue Dolls - Makers of hand made 1/12th scale porcelain dolls. Information on products, philosophy and contact details.
Curly's Corner Shop - Personal guide to South Shields including weather, local links, photographs and famous residents.
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die South Shields Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver South Shields Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) South Shields In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" 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 "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit South Shields We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) South Shields It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) South Shields "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) South Shields Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper South Shields "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks South Shields The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad South Shields What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings South Shields Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 South Shields "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War South Shields Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi South Shields The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson 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) South Shields "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne South Shields "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire South Shields A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt South Shields "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow South Shields "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) South Shields A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard South Shields There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from South Shields
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