Arden Bridge Club - Includes competition results and contact information.
Shirley-U-Drive - Car, truck and van rental service. Includes contact information.
Shirley Towntalk - A guide to the town centre. Includes a quarterly PDF newsletter, map, business directory, information about the Town Centre Partnership, and details of local issues.
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Shirley "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx 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) Shirley
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Shirley "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Shirley
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Shirley "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Shirley
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "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) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Shirley Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Shirley
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Shirley Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Shirley
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Shirley Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Shirley
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Shirley I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Shirley
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Shirley "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Shirley
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Shirley Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Shirley
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Shirley When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Shirley
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Shirley Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Shirley
