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Society and Culture Links

Children in Walsall - Includes information on childminding, nurseries, schools, playgroups, toddler groups, creches, playschemes and out of school clubs.
Walsall Local History Centre - Archives service and studies library. Resources for local and family history across the Borough.
Walsall Deaf People's Centre - Provides a range of activities and services for the borough's deaf community. Includes an event diary.
Walsall Carers Centre - Charity helping and supporting carers responsible for welfare of friends or relatives with disability or infirmity.
Sure Start Blakenall - Information on services in Walsall, childcare in Blakenall and news on whats on around the area.
The Crutchley Family - History and genealogy of the family originating from the Walsall and Bloxwich areas.
Church Links - Supporting church communities across the borough. Includes church directory, fund-raising tips, and information about VAT and the disability discrimination act.
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde "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, Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Society and Culture The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison "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 "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Society and Culture If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Society and Culture Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Society and Culture The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Society and Culture If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Society and Culture May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Society and Culture "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Society and Culture The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Society and Culture Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Society and Culture The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Society and Culture A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Society and Culture Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Society and Culture A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Society and Culture I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Society and Culture
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