Brownhills Past - A history of Brownhills, with images of the industrial past, much of which is now decaying or being demolished.
Wicksons Travel - Coach and tour operators. Includes details of services offered.
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Brownhills "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Brownhills
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Brownhills Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain 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 Brownhills
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 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Brownhills The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Brownhills
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Brownhills Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Brownhills
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Brownhills If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Brownhills
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Brownhills Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Brownhills
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Brownhills Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Brownhills
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Brownhills Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Brownhills
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Brownhills "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Brownhills
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Brownhills If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Brownhills
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Brownhills Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Brownhills
