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Headley Village - Official community site including historical and current information, news, gossip, and events, with pages for council matters and sports and social organisation information.
Headley Cricket Club - Club, founded in 1872, and who play their home matches on a Saturday on the village playing field. Sections include fixtures and results, player profiles, league tables, tour of the ground and contact info.
John Owen Smith - Comprehensive personal pages of a man describing himself as a historian, wordsmith, speaker, poet, playwright and publisher. Sections include books for sale, details of the drama group, the village society, historical information and local links.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Headley "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Headley If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Headley "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Headley A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau "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) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Headley All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Headley It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Headley I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a rest period between romances. Headley It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Headley The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie 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 Headley Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Headley I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw Headley Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Headley "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Headley "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') The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Headley "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Headley If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky "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) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Headley Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Headley It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner "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) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Headley Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Headley I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Headley The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Headley
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