Sandwell Libraries - Community libraries, how to join and information about Library Learning Centres.
Sandwell Arts Focus - Partnership of services and agencies from across the Sandwell which are involved in the arts.
Trevalan Photography - Corporate, PR, and press photography. Includes company information, details of services, and photo gallery. Located in Yew Tree.
Warley Male Choir - Includes choir information and events diary. [requires flash]
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Arts and Entertainment The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "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 The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Arts and Entertainment
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Arts and Entertainment
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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 Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Arts and Entertainment
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Arts and Entertainment The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Arts and Entertainment
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Arts and Entertainment The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Arts and Entertainment
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Arts and Entertainment Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Arts and Entertainment
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Arts and Entertainment America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Arts and Entertainment
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Arts and Entertainment It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Arts and Entertainment Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Arts and Entertainment
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Arts and Entertainment
