Burwell Carnival - Information on what's happenning, photo gallery of past years, location maps and contact details for the village's annual event, held in June. (May not work in all browsers)
Burwell Museum of Fen Edge Village Life - Rural life museum depicting life through the centuries on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens. Contains details about opening days and times, working displays, layout of the exhibits, advanced booking and directions.
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Burwell He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Burwell
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Burwell "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Burwell
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "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 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Burwell If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Burwell
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Burwell Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Burwell
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Burwell He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Burwell
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Burwell The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Burwell
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Burwell I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Burwell
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 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) 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 Burwell Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Burwell
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Burwell Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Burwell
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Burwell The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Burwell
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Burwell Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Burwell
