Warren & Zoe - The Big Day, 5th October 2002 - Includes details of their engagement, the church, reception venue, honeymoon plans, stag do and hen night, with directions and gift registry information.
Stourport-on-Severn Civic Society - Information about the society, its work and activities. Includes a calendar of forthcoming events.
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 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Society and Culture "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Society and Culture
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Society and Culture You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Society and Culture A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Society and Culture Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Society and Culture
"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) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Society and Culture
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Society and Culture The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Society and Culture
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Society and Culture Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Society and Culture
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Society and Culture Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Society and Culture
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Society and Culture "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
