Hailsham Pavilion Cinema - Local cinema owned & run by the community - re-opened in 2000 after 30 years dereliction. Shows a mixture of current releases and older classics in a relaxed atmosphere.
Grovelands County Primary School - Children aged 4 - 11. Includes the schools prospectus and information on their millennium project.
Hawks Farm School - County Primary School for children aged 4 to 11.
Mark Allen Tours - Contact details and charges for travel planning and chauffeuring service.
Style Xecutive - Offers chauffeur-driven vehicles for all business and social purposes. Shows examples of the cars used, and full contact details.
Little Marshfoot Farmhouse - Self catering chalet in the gardens of a former farmhouse. Profile, capacity, facilities and photographs.
Hailsham Harriers - Road running club. Includes profile, history, events and results.
Slate Base Snooker Club - Includes results for snooker, pool, darts and bar billiards leagues.
Morgan Fitness - Exercise and personal training clinic. Describes its services.
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 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Hailsham "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Hailsham
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton 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 you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Hailsham "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Hailsham
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Hailsham Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Hailsham
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Hailsham If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Hailsham
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Hailsham Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Hailsham
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Hailsham However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Hailsham
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Hailsham Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Hailsham
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Hailsham May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Hailsham
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Hailsham If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Hailsham
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Hailsham Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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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 I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Hailsham The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Hailsham