Colchester Fabian Society - The oldest recorded socialist organisation in Britain's oldest recorded town. Introduction, people and links.
Rotaserv Club of Colchester - Social and fund raising organization for women and men aged 30 to 40. Events, diary, forum and photos.
Bob Russell - Liberal Democrat and member of Parliament for this constituency. News, biography, photographs and contact.
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Society and Culture "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) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Society and Culture
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Society and Culture Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 Society and Culture
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Society and Culture Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Society and Culture
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Society and Culture With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Society and Culture
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Society and Culture "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Society and Culture
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Society and Culture The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Society and Culture
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Society and Culture When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
