OrchNet - The Billericay school studio orchestra; history, songlist and downloadable samples.
Billericay Mayflower Twinning Association - Founded to promote links between Billericay and its daughter town of Billerica, Massachusetts, USA. Includes histories of both towns.
Billericay Neighbourhood Watch - With news, tips, security and crime prevention advice, plus information about the local police and how to report incidents to them.
The Billericay Society - Society for the protection of Billericay's heritage. Includes photos, information on listed buildings and contact information.
The Norsey Wood Society - Local nature reserve and SSSI. Includes news, directions and details on the history and wildlife of Norsey Wood.
Billericay Choral Society - Local choral society, upcoming events, information on joining and details of past performances.
The Lions Club of Billericay - Local branch of an international charitable club. Include details of fund raising, membership and meetings.
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Society and Culture
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Society and Culture Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 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 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken 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. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Society and Culture
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Society and Culture The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Society and Culture Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Society and Culture
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Society and Culture One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Society and Culture
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Society and Culture Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "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) Society and Culture
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Society and Culture You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Society and Culture In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
