Harwich Morris Men - Programme for the year, photo gallery spanning 20 years, history and a list of all members past and present.
The Dovercourt Theatre Group - An amateur group which has been performing for nearly 25 years. Primarily an adult based group, with members hailing from all walks of life, but local children are also involved.
Harwich Charter 400 - Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter to Harwich by King James 1 in 1604. Introduction, history, events, regalia, colouring competition and charter details. [uses flash]
Martin-Jones.org.uk - Information about bellringing, plus photos and a brief biography.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Society and Culture 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 "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Society and Culture
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Society and Culture
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Society and Culture Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Society and Culture Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Society and Culture It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Society and Culture blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Society and Culture A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "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) Society and Culture The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture 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 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Society and Culture
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
