Camulodunum - Aims to provide an insight to some of the places, people and events that have shaped this wonderful town through its history.
Camulos - The Colchester Webpages - This site covers various aspects of Colchester's rich history, it being the oldest recorded town in Great Britain
Medieval English urban history - Few, if any, of England's towns can lay claim to the longevity that Colchester can; certainly none in East Anglia
Colchester Guide - Guide to Britain's oldest recorded town. History, what to do and see, where to stay, and photo gallery.
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 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Travel and Tourism "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) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril 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 To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Travel and Tourism Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Travel and Tourism
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 Travel and Tourism Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Travel and Tourism Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Travel and Tourism Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Travel and Tourism Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Travel and Tourism
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Travel and Tourism There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Travel and Tourism A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Travel and Tourism
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Travel and Tourism
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake 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 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Travel and Tourism It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Travel and Tourism
