Higgins Construction PLC - Operating throughout Greater London and the South East, with residential, community, and educational projects. Includes information on resident consultation, customer care, community, training and local employment initiatives.
Broadland Construction Limited - Specialise in outfit works for homes and offices. Includes company profile and completed projects. Offices in London and Norwich.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Builders Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Builders
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Builders The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Builders
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Builders Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Builders
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Builders Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Builders
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Builders First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Builders
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Builders Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Builders
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Builders Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Builders
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Builders "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Builders
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Builders There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Builders
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Builders "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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Builders
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Builders Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Builders
