Cambridge Community Safety Partnerships - Details of the areas, Cambridgeshire crime audits, community safety strategies, where they meet, news and information.
Guide to Cambridgeshire Parish Churches - Information about medieval parish churches of the City and the County that have been visited by two individuals, with notes, history and pictures for each one. Also contains a list of the dedications to the different saints and suggested further reading.
Wimpole, Arrington and Orwell Villages - A community and local history site covering three villages, which are situated on the western edge of the county, all close to the A603.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Society and Culture
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 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Society and Culture
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Society and Culture
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Society and Culture
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Society and Culture The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Society and Culture
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "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) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Society and Culture
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Society and Culture When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Society and Culture
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles 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. Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Society and Culture
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Society and Culture Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Society and Culture
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Society and Culture "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Society and Culture
