Bewdley ADSL.net - Promotion of interest in the upgrading of the local Bewdley telephone exchange to support Broadband ADSL.
Bewdley Festival - Annual festival of music, drama, literature and history. Includes programme of events and location information.
Bewdley Parish - Covers the churches of St Anne's Bewdley, St Leonard's Ribbesford and St Andrew's Button Oak. Includes service times, advice about marriage, bereavement and baptism, church history and community phone numbers.
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Society and Culture Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Society and Culture
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Society and Culture The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Society and Culture
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Society and Culture You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 Society and Culture
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Society and Culture I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Society and Culture
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Society and Culture Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Society and Culture To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde 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.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Society and Culture
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Society and Culture Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Society and Culture Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Society and Culture
