Christchurch - A community website for the small village of Christchurch in Cambridgeshire. Site contains a photo album, details about village clubs, and other village information.
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Christchurch "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Christchurch
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Christchurch A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Christchurch
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Christchurch "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Christchurch
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Christchurch "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Christchurch
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Christchurch In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Christchurch
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Christchurch The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Christchurch
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Christchurch "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Christchurch
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "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) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Christchurch "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis 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 Christchurch
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Christchurch It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Christchurch
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Christchurch A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Christchurch
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Christchurch Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Christchurch
