St John the Evangelist - Anglican parish in the Diocese of Lichfield, but under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet. Includes information about services and activities, with newsletter, photos, and diary.
Tipton Green Methodist Church - Services and worship details, activities, history, testimonies and location. Part of the Tipton circuit.
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Society and Culture
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Society and Culture
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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.
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Society and Culture
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Society and Culture
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Society and Culture My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 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 Society and Culture
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi 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 Society and Culture
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins >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 Society and Culture A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 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 Society and Culture
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Society and Culture "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Society and Culture
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture
