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DIY FixIt - Free independent information service covering building and repairs, plumbing, tiling, electrics, wallpapering, painting and decorating.
B and Q - Useful advice on DIY projects for home and garden from nationwide chain.
DIYnot.com - Reference information, guides, tips and help, as well as forums, monthly magazine, free auctions and directory of local suppliers and experts.
Canfixit - Free advice and information for do it yourself, buying, renovating and selling houses, small building projects. Articles, Q&A and links.
Good wood guide - Guide to choosing timber for DIY, home improvement, self build or construction projects.
The DIY World - Home improvement site, with fact sheets covering techniques and know-how for joinery, ventilation, home electrics and security. Includes a discussion forum.
BBC Home DIY - Guide covering plumbing, flooring, tiling and decorating. Includes safety tips and materials calculator.
DIY FAQ - Comprehensive archive of the uk.d-i-y newsgroup. Covering decorating, home security, electrical, heating and plumbing.
Homebase How-To - Practical know-how and advice on home improvement from superstore chain.
Paving Expert - A comprehensive guide to paving, to residential and garden drainage, and to other hard landscaping materials and methods commonly used.
Discovery Home and Leisure - Concise step by step DIY techniques and tips. Covers interior and exterior with time and cost estimates.
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Marriage is a rest period between romances. DIY A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. DIY All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point DIY "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) DIY First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous DIY All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) DIY Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy "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) There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) DIY It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) DIY I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky 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 I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison DIY It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi DIY An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom DIY Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) DIY "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) DIY Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup DIY Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous DIY The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "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' DIY The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary DIY I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous DIY The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) DIY I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw DIY If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain DIY He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) DIY
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