Bushbury Hill Estate Management Board - Tenant self-managed housing estate in Wolverhampton. Includes profile of board and staff, description of work, service, and funding.
Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies - Documents, maps, photographs, books, videos and film relating to all aspects of the history of places now within the city.
Wolverhampton War Memorials - Details and photographs of the various memorials in the area. Includes transcriptions of the rolls of honour.
The Wolverhampton Gunlock Makers - A sketch history of the Wolverhampton family businesses who produced the World's finest gunlocks (firing mechanisms for guns), from the 18th century to present day.
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Society and Culture University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Society and Culture
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Society and Culture
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Society and Culture
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy 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 Society and Culture
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Society and Culture "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Society and Culture
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Society and Culture "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Society and Culture
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture 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 As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Society and Culture
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Society and Culture "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Society and Culture
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Society and Culture If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Society and Culture
