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Cookham.com - Village guide including links to local societies, businesses, churches and schools, with village tour, history and photographs.
Cookham Scouts - Includes program information, events, photos and calendar for Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, and Venturers.
All The World's A Studio - Photography for weddings, portraits and events by Jeff Krotz. Features sample photo galleries and contact information.
Holy Trinity Church - Information about this church and its history, including service details, fundraising, and the parish centre.
MDR Direct - Model railway locomotives, rolling stock, parts and accessories. Product range, price list and contacts.
Clay and Glaze - Supplier of floor and wall tiles.
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison 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 Cookham What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Cookham Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Cookham "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Cookham Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Cookham Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Cookham Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cookham Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Cookham Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Cookham Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Cookham "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Cookham The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Cookham If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Cookham A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Cookham Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Cookham "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Cookham Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Cookham Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Cookham Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Cookham Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Cookham "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal 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 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Cookham The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Cookham
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