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Lara Aldridge Glass - Decorative glass pieces and panels. Profile, manufacturing technique, product range and ordering information.

Ditchling Museum - Concentrates on art, craft and village life. Profile with information about its exhibits and opening times.

Ditchling Community Portal - History, clubs, societies, shops and services in the village. Also offers free updatable pages for clubs and societies.

Ditchling Archery Club - Describes its activities and history with events, photos and information for beginners.

Ditchling Morris - History, events, slide show and movie-clips.

Ditchling Gallery - Specialises in landscape drawings, watercolours and oil-paintings by Sussex artists. Profile, directions and portfolios.

Stoneywish Nature Reserve - Describes its facilities which include a herb garden and a tea rtoom with opening times and directions.

Ditchling Fair - Describes this biennial fair with history, events and programme.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Ditchling The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Ditchling "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos Ditchling Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Ditchling True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein Ditchling "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will Ditchling I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett 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 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Ditchling A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Ditchling A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire 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 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Ditchling An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Ditchling The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Ditchling I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Ditchling "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman "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) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Ditchling Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Ditchling The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Ditchling Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Ditchling All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov 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 Ditchling Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Ditchling I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "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) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Ditchling I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Ditchling "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson "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) The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ditchling "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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 Ditchling
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