Network Furniture Centre - Collect furniture from local homes which is not wanted any more and pass it on to people on a means tested income for a minimal amount that includes local delivery.
The Friends of Kidderminster Town Station - A project based voluntary group that add 1930's historic detail to the Severn Valley Railway built Station. Includes history, projects and contact.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker 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 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House 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) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Society and Culture
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Society and Culture
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Society and Culture "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend 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 Society and Culture
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Society and Culture The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Society and Culture
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "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) Society and Culture Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Society and Culture
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince 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 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Society and Culture "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"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) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Society and Culture Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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