Coventry Earth Spirit - Organisation concerned with the cultural, emotional and spiritual side to our relationship with the environment. Organises talks, open celebrations and conservation activities.
Coventry Council of Disabled People - Promotes information to and represents disabled people. Useful news and information sections, including a listing of pubs in Coventry with access information.
Historic Coventry - A look at old Coventry, its historic buildings and city wall, with old and new photographs and interactive maps since medieval times.
Coventry University Students' Union - Official site offering news, details of upcoming events, information on individual societies, and advice for students.
Tribal Coventry - A look at crime and other less desirable aspects of the city.
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. 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 Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Society and Culture Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Society and Culture Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Society and Culture
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Society and Culture The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Society and Culture
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Society and Culture
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Society and Culture
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Society and Culture
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Society and Culture "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Society and Culture
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Society and Culture "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Society and Culture
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
