Holmes Chapel First Responder Scheme - Information, background and latest news about a community initiative with local volunteers being trained in the use of a defibrillator.
Next Of Kin - Nationwide organisation which aids the police and emergency services in locating a next of kin in an emergency.
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago 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.
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Emergency Services Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Emergency Services
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Emergency Services "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Emergency Services
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Emergency Services "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Emergency Services
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Emergency Services I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Emergency Services
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Emergency Services Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Emergency Services
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Emergency Services We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Emergency Services
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Emergency Services 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 longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Emergency Services
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Emergency Services Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Emergency Services
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Emergency Services Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Emergency Services
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "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 "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Emergency Services My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Emergency Services
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Emergency Services "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Emergency Services
