The Lock Museum - Covers the history of lockmaking in the West Midlands. Includes a floor plan and a virtual tour.
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-- Gerald Holton We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Bertrand Russell Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
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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 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
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People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
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-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
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The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
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-- Rita Rudner I have spread my dreams under your feet;
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-- Anonymous The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
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-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
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"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
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Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
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-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens 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 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Arts and Entertainment "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
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-- Henny Youngman What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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