National Working Terrier Federation - Governing body in the UK offers information about the NWTF and its affiliated clubs and shows, the history of working terriers, their use in pest control and the Federation's accredited membership scheme.
Fell & Moorland Working Terrier Club - This organized rescue service for terriers lost to ground during hunting also provides a foster service and supports working terrier shows.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Associations "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Associations
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Associations All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Associations
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Associations One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Associations
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Associations It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Associations
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Associations Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Associations
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Associations Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Associations
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Associations "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Associations
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Associations Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Associations
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Associations "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Associations
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Associations "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) 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 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Associations
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Associations blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Associations
