Solihull Soul Mates - Local specialist for social events, introductions, dating, and friendship in Solihull and surrounding areas. Includes contacts and fees.
Kidz Klub - After-school club for 7 - 12 year olds. Includes term dates and photos.
The Old Silhillians Association - For the former pupils of Solihull School. Includes events diary, sports sections, photographs, and a PDF version of the Silhillian magazine. [requires java]
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Society and Culture
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg 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 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Society and Culture "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Society and Culture
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society and Culture
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Society and Culture Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Society and Culture
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage is a rest period between romances. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Society and Culture Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Society and Culture
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Society and Culture If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Society and Culture
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Society and Culture The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Society and Culture
