Easington Brass Band - A registered charity, available for private or public functions. Includes programme of events, junior section, player profiles, photographs and vacancies.
Seaton Holme - Former rectory, discovery centre and long gallery which traces the history of the building and area from rural times and the coming of the coal industry. Includes a programme of events and related links.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Easington The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Easington
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Easington "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Easington
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Easington Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Easington
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Easington A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Easington
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Easington The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Easington
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Easington Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Easington
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Easington "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Easington
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Easington He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Easington
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Easington In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "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) Easington
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Easington When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Easington
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells 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 Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Easington Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Easington
