Droitwich Spa Salvation Army - Details of the church and services, their community work and music, together with an events schedule.
St Augustine's Church - News and events, information about baptisms and marriages, and a history of the church.
Witton Chapel - An Independent, Evangelical, Reformed, Baptist Church. Includes service times, and details about their faith.
Droitwich Spa Twinning Association - Information on Twinning activities between Droitwich Spa and the German town of Bad Ems. Also includes newsletters and events calendar.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "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) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "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) Society and Culture
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture 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 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Society and Culture
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Society and Culture "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Society and Culture
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) 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 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Society and Culture "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Society and Culture
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Society and Culture He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. 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 Society and Culture The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "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 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Society and Culture The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Society and Culture
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Society and Culture We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Society and Culture
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Society and Culture
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Society and Culture "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Society and Culture The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture
