Sandwell Silver Surfers - On-line community to connect older people throughout the six towns in the borough.
Warley Leisure and Enabling Services - Non-profit making voluntary organisation for people with learning disabilities living in the Borough. Includes details of services offered.
Sandwell Traffic and Road Safety - Dedicated to traffic and road safety issues. Tackles many aspects and issues across a wide variety of age groups.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Society and Culture I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Society and Culture
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Society and Culture Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Society and Culture Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Society and Culture
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Society and Culture The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Society and Culture 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Society and Culture
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Society and Culture
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "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) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "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) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Society and Culture For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Society and Culture With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
