Knowhere Guide to Hastings - Informal information about the town, supplied by locals. With links to noticeboard facility.
Hastings and St Leonards Observer Online - Online edition of the local newspaper, providing the current headlines and sports news. Jobs, property, motor and classified advertising.
Hastings and the 1066 Country - Compilation of web links and resources for this popular south coast area of Britain. The site hosts the 1066 message board, and has local sightseeing photos, road and rail maps, train timetable and other resources.
Hastings and St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex - Hastings and St Leonards regional information. Photo gallery, business directory, local clubs, support groups, associations and area maps.
Hastings and St Leonards - The official Hastings and St Leonards website, with information for residents and visitors.
Hastings Pier - An unofficial web site with information, history and year 2000 events.
Arthur C Towner Limited - A family-owned business of Funeral Directors and Monumental Masons. Information, company history, services and contact details.
Hastings Old Town - A guide to the town and its attractions with news, events and categorised list of shops and eating places.
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Hastings When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Hastings
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Hastings "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Hastings
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Hastings May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hastings
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Hastings The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Hastings
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) 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 Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Hastings If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Hastings
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Hastings your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Hastings
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana 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 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Hastings Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Hastings
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Hastings A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Hastings
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Hastings "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Hastings
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Hastings "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Hastings
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Hastings 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 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Hastings
