Friends of Holy Innocents Church, Lamarsh - Historical, architectural and present day information about the church and its parish. Also details of the registered charity that supports this grade 1 listed building.
Lamarsh Lion - 14th century coaching inn offering a restaurant and accommodation. Facilities and local information.
Daws Hall Trust - Essex County Council outdoor centre, situated in the Stour Valley, open throughout the year to school and youth groups and is set on a 30 acre nature reserve. Overview with information about the trust, calendar and teachers area.
Shrubs Farm - Gardens and park. Overview, open days, photos and directions.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Lamarsh The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Lamarsh
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Lamarsh Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Lamarsh
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Lamarsh Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Lamarsh
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Lamarsh "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) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Lamarsh
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "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) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Lamarsh Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Lamarsh
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Lamarsh Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "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) Lamarsh
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) What's new? Most of my wife. Lamarsh Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Lamarsh
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "... 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) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Lamarsh The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Lamarsh
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 Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Lamarsh Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Lamarsh
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Lamarsh If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Lamarsh
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Lamarsh "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Lamarsh
