Clown Kevin - Available for parties, corporate events, or festivals.
Bromsgrove Concerts - Includes information about classical music concerts in Spadesbourne Hall, with ticket prices and directions.
Bromsgrove Photographic Society - Location, membership fees, programme of meetings, competition rules and scoring, members' gallery and links to clubs in many parts of Britain.
Wilderness & Neon - Features illustrations and art galleries by Chris Hathway.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
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-- Helen Keller "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams Arts and Entertainment
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be 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 Arts and Entertainment Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Arts and Entertainment
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
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-- Rene Descartes "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Arts and Entertainment
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Arts and Entertainment
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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bre Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Arts and Entertainment your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Arts and Entertainment Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
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-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo He who awaits much can expect little.
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-- Sting "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Arts and Entertainment The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
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