The Parish Church of St Mary's - A Church of England Parish in the Diocese of Chelmsford. Offers information about Church services, an on-line tour of the Church, and the latest news and views from Dedham.
May's Barn Farm - Bed and breakfast in Dedham, an area made famous by the artist John Constable.
AB security - Locksmiths and burglary repair service. Includes description of services and contact details.
Fountain House at Dedham Hall - Restaurant and guest house where John Constable learned to paint. Accommodation, painting courses and menus.
Dedham Primary School - Voluntary controlled Church of England school. Overview, staff, governors, classes, clubs and contact.
The Assembly Rooms, Dedham - Historic building available for hire. Facilities, history and refurbishment.
Boathouse Restaurant - Restaurant, boat hire and snacks. Overview, menu, hire details and print.
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Dedham You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Dedham
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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. Dedham It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Dedham
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 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Dedham If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Dedham
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Dedham Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith My other wife is beautiful. He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Dedham
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Dedham "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "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) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dedham
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Dedham He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Dedham
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "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) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Dedham "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Dedham
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dedham Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Dedham
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Dedham The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Dedham
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Dedham Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Dedham
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Dedham It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Dedham
