AnyoneCan - Lists photographs and details about local churches, plus information about the web site sponsor.
Seaham Community Resource Project - Formed to help local people on low incomes furnish their homes. Includes meeting times and contacts .
The Story of Seaham Group - Association founded in 1994 to promote and encourage the study and presentation of all aspects of the story of the town . Includes images of local artefacts held in the collection.
Seaham Scenes - Collection photographs of the harbour and surroundiong area.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Society and Culture A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Society and Culture
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Society and Culture
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Society and Culture All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Society and Culture
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Society and Culture When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. 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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Society and Culture 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 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Society and Culture Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Society and Culture
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Society and Culture People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Society and Culture
