Vintage Trains - Collection of steam locomotives located at the Tyseley Locomotive Works Visitor Centre in Birmingham. Also information for the Shakespeare Express which runs between Birmingham and Stratford upon Avon.
A2Z Limos 4 U - Chauffeur driven stretch limousines. Includes photographs of the vehicles, details of services, and online booking for existing customers.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Transport "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Transport
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Transport "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 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "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) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Transport The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Transport The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Transport
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Transport Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Transport
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Transport The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Transport
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Transport In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Transport
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Transport I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Transport
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Transport It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes 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 Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Transport
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Transport Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs 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 Transport
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "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) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Transport I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) 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 Transport
