Essentially Essex - Hundreds of photographs of people, places and events in the county taken by the people of Essex during the year 2000.
The Fields of North Essex - Scenes from the North Essex villages of Great Bardfield, Little Bardfield, Finchingfield and Wethersfield; plus fishing notes.
Finchingfield - Historical photographs from village taken between the 1930s and 1990s.
Windmills of Essex - Photographs of all the windmills in Essex with photographs and information about their localities.
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince 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 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Maps and Views Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Maps and Views
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Maps and Views "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Maps and Views
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Maps and Views "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "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) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Maps and Views
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "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) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Maps and Views "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Maps and Views
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Maps and Views The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Maps and Views
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Maps and Views Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "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) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Maps and Views
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "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) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Maps and Views "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) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Maps and Views
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Maps and Views If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Maps and Views
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Maps and Views Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Maps and Views
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Maps and Views "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Maps and Views
