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Acorn Christian Fellowship - An Elim Pentecostal Church. Details of services and activities.
Alpha in Whitley Bay Baptist Church - Promotes a basic introduction to Christianity course.
St Pauls Bell Ringers - Group of bell ringers active in local church. Details of meetings, church bells, links, contact information and comments section.
Whitley Bay Christian Fellowship - Independent evangelical church. Details of beliefs, history, service times and weekly activities.
Trinity United Reformed Church - Contacts, activities, location, worship and history. Part of the Coast group of churches.
St Edward's - Roman Catholic Church. Mass times, contact details, parish history, parish groups, events, weekly bulletin. Uses frames.
St John's Methodist Church - Offers services, mission statement, location, background information, children, adults, uniformed, magazine, contact and links.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Society and Culture A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Society and Culture This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Society and Culture Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) 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) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Society and Culture The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 Society and Culture Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Society and Culture Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Society and Culture "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Society and Culture We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Society and Culture Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Society and Culture Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Society and Culture "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Society and Culture We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles Society and Culture Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Society and Culture "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) 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 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Society and Culture Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Society and Culture Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Society and Culture The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. 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 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
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