Friends of Hadstock Church - Charity which seeks to preserve St Botolph's church. Photos, history, donations, art and constitution.
Vikings in Hadstock - BBC website telling about the possible invasion of Hadstock and the truth about the famous ancient church door, also offers a video.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Hadstock Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Hadstock
"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) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Hadstock A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Hadstock
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Hadstock He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Hadstock
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Hadstock I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Hadstock
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Hadstock A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Hadstock
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Hadstock Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Hadstock
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Hadstock If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Hadstock
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) 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 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Hadstock I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Hadstock
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Hadstock Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey 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 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Hadstock
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Hadstock "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Hadstock
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "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) Hadstock "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Hadstock
