Warley Woods Community Trust - Endeavours to reinstate the woods and parkland to its state as landscaped by Sir Humphrey Repton. Includes information about aims and membership.
Herp Conservation - Society for the conservation of herpetiles in Birmingham and the Black Country.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Science and Environment Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Science and Environment
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Science and Environment
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Science and Environment You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Science and Environment 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 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Science and Environment Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Science and Environment
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Science and Environment Spinster: A bachelor's wife. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Science and Environment
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Science and Environment
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Science and Environment Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Science and Environment
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Science and Environment How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Science and Environment
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Science and Environment
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Science and Environment The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Science and Environment
