The Glass Quarter - A area of the borough containing the largest single concentration of glass manufacturers in the UK. This site brings together over 40 glass companies.
Waldrons Solicitors - Offices in Brierley Hill, Lye, Dudley, and Kingswinford. Includes information about each area of practice, with contact details for each office.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Business and Economy
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Business and Economy To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Business and Economy
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Business and Economy 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 Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Business and Economy
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison 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) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Business and Economy The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Business and Economy
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "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 Business and Economy My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Business and Economy Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Business and Economy "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Business and Economy How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Business and Economy
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Business and Economy "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Business and Economy
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Business and Economy "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Business and Economy
