Leighton Linslade Virtual Museum - Provides local historical information, including domestic and commercial artefacts, prominent people and pictures of architecturally interesting buildings.
Leighton Buzzard Drama Group - Gives several shows per year. Includes information on current, future and past productions, history and membership. Also includes a photo gallery and engineering drawings of the stage and its equipment.
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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Arts and Entertainment
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Arts and Entertainment
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Arts and Entertainment He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Arts and Entertainment
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Arts and Entertainment They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Arts and Entertainment
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Arts and Entertainment Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Arts and Entertainment
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Arts and Entertainment "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
