Dudley Cave Rescue Team - The club these days is more of a general caving club although it retains its rescuse links and is a constituent member of the Midlands Cave Rescue organization.
Dudley and South Staffs CAMRA - Local group of the Campaign for Real Ale Association. Includes details of beer festivals, pub crawls and brewery visits.
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 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Recreation and Sports Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Recreation and Sports
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Recreation and Sports "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
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 seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Recreation and Sports
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Recreation and Sports Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Recreation and Sports
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Recreation and Sports "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Recreation and Sports
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward May you never leave your marriage alive. Recreation and Sports Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Recreation and Sports
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Recreation and Sports Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Recreation and Sports
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Recreation and Sports In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Recreation and Sports
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Recreation and Sports
