Badgers Dene - A community website for the local area with news, discussions and local information.
Gables Parent and Child Project - The Gables parent and child project in Thurrock provides housing and support for single and expectant parents who may be experiencing difficulties with housing.
Street Style and Power - Supplier of Volkswagen strip and street tuning products. Includes online ordering of parts and contact details.
Ridge Roofing - Roofing specialists including fitting new roofs as well as small repairs. Includes photographs and contact details.
Chrystal Clear Windscreen Repairs - Windscreen repairers to cars and commercial vehicles. Includes prices, photographs and contact information.
Jasper Audio Visual Limited - Hire, sales and maintenance of audio visual equipment. Includes photographs and contact information.
Bowlins Ltd - Asbestos removal, surveys and associated services. Includes location map and contact information.
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Grays "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Grays
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Grays To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Grays
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Grays The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Grays
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Grays The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Grays
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Grays "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Grays
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Grays Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaďs Nin "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Grays
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Grays Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Grays
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 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "... 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) Grays Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Grays
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Grays The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "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 Grays
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grays Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Grays
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Grays "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Grays
