Billericay dot Net - Local interests in and around Billericay. Includes message board, local news and a historic building walk.
Billericay District Residents' Association - A non-party political association which aims to improve the amenities of the District and promote the election of suitable persons to various local bodies, including Basildon District Council. Regular newsletter "The Resident".
Billericay Town Council - Includes general information, contact details, news and parish map.
Ashley G Watts - Professional wedding photographer. Gallery, biography and contact.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Billericay No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Billericay
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Billericay If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Billericay
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Billericay "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) 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 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 Billericay
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Billericay "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) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Billericay
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise 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 artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Billericay "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Billericay
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Billericay Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Billericay
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Billericay "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Billericay
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Billericay That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Billericay
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Billericay The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Billericay
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Billericay Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Billericay
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Billericay When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Billericay
