White Mountain - Retailer of all items to do with outdoor life. Outlets in Wolverhampton and Walsall.
Cousins Furniture Store - Gives details of the various departments, including carpets and curtains. Stores in Tyseley and Dudley.
"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) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
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-- Ghandi Shopping He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
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-- Sydney Smith I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
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-- Erica Jong Shopping If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
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possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
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-- Steve Bluestone Shopping
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Shopping
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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-- Tom Robbins Shopping If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Shopping Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Shopping
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Shopping "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Shopping
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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-- T.S. Eliot A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Shopping
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Shopping I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Shopping
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Shopping As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Shopping
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Shopping If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Shopping
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 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
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stealing, Shopping "... 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) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Shopping
