St Neots Art Group - Showcases members art work and provides club news and diary of events.
St Neots Folk Club - Meets at the town football club on Tuesdays. Programme and contact details and includes information on local folk festival held each May.
Constable Photography - Photographic work including birthday club, wedding fairs, portraiture, photo repair, locket prints, passports and digital services.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Arts and Entertainment blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Arts and Entertainment "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Arts and Entertainment
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Arts and Entertainment "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Arts and Entertainment
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Arts and Entertainment
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Arts and Entertainment blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Arts and Entertainment
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Arts and Entertainment Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Arts and Entertainment Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Arts and Entertainment
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Marriage is a rest period between romances. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Arts and Entertainment If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Arts and Entertainment
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Arts and Entertainment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Arts and Entertainment If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Arts and Entertainment
