Foxearth and District Local History Society - Collection of local history materials about the northern part of Essex, including 200 years of newspaper archives, maps, photographs and censuses.
Foxearth 1848 Directory - White's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Essex 1848. Listing for the village.
Moving History - Article about "Her Village Summer" a film shot in the 1960's which featured the village of Foxearth and which has been restored by the East Anglian Film Archive.
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Foxearth "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Foxearth
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Foxearth "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 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Foxearth
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Foxearth "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Foxearth
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Foxearth Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Foxearth
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Foxearth When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Foxearth
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Foxearth I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Foxearth
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Foxearth A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Foxearth
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Foxearth Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Foxearth
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Foxearth The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Foxearth
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Foxearth Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld 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 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Foxearth
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Foxearth An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Foxearth
