Colebridge - Community site with a business directory and information about the area. Also details about the Colebridge Trust social enterprise, and the colebridge.net internet and media services.
Elmdon Matters - Community site from the local conservative party. Includes local information, news, events listings, and an online forum.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Solihull Metropolitan Borough "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Solihull Metropolitan Borough
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 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Solihull Metropolitan Borough I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Solihull Metropolitan Borough
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Solihull Metropolitan Borough I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Solihull Metropolitan Borough
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Solihull Metropolitan Borough Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Solihull Metropolitan Borough
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Solihull Metropolitan Borough "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Solihull Metropolitan Borough
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Solihull Metropolitan Borough "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Solihull Metropolitan Borough
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Solihull Metropolitan Borough "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Solihull Metropolitan Borough
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Solihull Metropolitan Borough A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Solihull Metropolitan Borough
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Solihull Metropolitan Borough And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Solihull Metropolitan Borough
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Solihull Metropolitan Borough "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Solihull Metropolitan Borough
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Solihull Metropolitan Borough It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Solihull Metropolitan Borough
