Three Counties Agricultural Society - Information about the history and work of the society, with details about all major events at the showground in Malvern.
Worcestershire Camera Club - Information including weekly programme of speakers and events and a gallery of members' pictures taken on slide or print film.
Catshill Village - Brief information and history about this village situated just north of Bromsgrove.
Soroptimist International Bromsgrove & Redditch - Local chapter of organisation for women in management and professions Includes club activities, programme of service and meeting information.
Worcestershire Action & Support Group for Adoptive Parents - Offers regular meetings, mentoring, advocacy, telephone support, education and training days, and related services in the local area. History, list of goals, newsletter, and reading list are included.
Worcester Women - Articles, reviews, hints, tips and poetry by Worcester women.
Mid Worcestershire Liberal Democrats - Local Councillors and party contacts, news from Worcestershire County Council and Wychavon District Council.
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Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
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-- Anonymous I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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-- Benjamin Franklin "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Society and Culture
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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-- Mae West For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
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I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
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-- Tom Clancy The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Society and Culture
"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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
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-- Proverbs 23:7 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Society and Culture
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Sigmund Freud The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Society and Culture We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston 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 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Society and Culture
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Society and Culture
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Society and Culture
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 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Society and Culture
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies 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 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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