Maldon Orchestra - Amateur orchestra in Essex. Includes rehearsal and concert details, with information on their repertoire, and the youth section.
Maldon District Museum - Stores, preserves and exhibits artefacts relating to the local area. List of exhibitions, notice board, location and opening times.
Avanti Photographics - Studio providing wedding, portrait and makeover photography. Overview, portfolio and contact.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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-- Anton Chekhov Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Arts and Entertainment
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
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-- Virginia Woolf Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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-- General Omar Bradley Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Arts and Entertainment "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
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-- Michel de Montaigne "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Arts and Entertainment
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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-- Jackie Mason Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler 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 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Arts and Entertainment We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Arts and Entertainment
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Arts and Entertainment We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "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) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Arts and Entertainment
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "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) Arts and Entertainment
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Arts and Entertainment The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
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