Barcombe.net - Community pages listing local societies and businesses and including local maps.
Energy Clinic - Offers various relaxation and massage therapies. Describes its treatments with directions and booking information.
Barcombe Roman Villa - Describes the Mid Sussex Field Archaeology Team's activities there with programme, photo galleries, site plan and downloads.
Barcombe Bonfire Society - Profile, activities and events with history, committee and song lyrics.
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Barcombe This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Barcombe
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Barcombe Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Barcombe
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Barcombe And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Barcombe
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Barcombe It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Barcombe
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Barcombe He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Barcombe
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Barcombe "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Barcombe
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Barcombe "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Barcombe
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Barcombe Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Barcombe
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Barcombe Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Barcombe
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. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Barcombe We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Barcombe
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Barcombe Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Barcombe
