Huntingdon Town Centre Partnership - Partnership is working towards developing the Town Centre as the market place, meeting place and cultural centre of Huntingdon. Business plan, news, membership application and links.
Hunts Post Online - Online version of the free local newspaper. Includes a directory of local schools, pharmacies, parish clerks and doctors, as well as a news archive dating back to 1998.
Huntingdon Town Web - An interactive guide to the town and its history includes many photographs and maps, both old and new, extensive searchable event diary and business database.
Discover Huntingdonshire - Information point for local services and attractions, aimed at tourists and residents alike.
Huntingdonshire - A Public Forum for the Old County of Huntingdonshire.
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was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Huntingdon Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Huntingdon When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
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-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Huntingdon
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Huntingdon "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Huntingdon
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "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 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Huntingdon Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Huntingdon
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Huntingdon "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Huntingdon
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Huntingdon You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Huntingdon
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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Huntingdon "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Huntingdon
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Huntingdon Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Huntingdon
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Huntingdon "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Huntingdon
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Huntingdon "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Huntingdon
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Huntingdon The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Huntingdon
