John Luck's Web Site - Provides information about his Rallye 880 2+2 aircraft and photos of the family.
Aylesford Priory - Information on the restoration of this ancient friary dissolved by Henry VIII and restored in 1949.
St Peter and St Pauls Church - Information about courses, services, sunday school, the church history, events and location.
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Society and Culture Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers 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 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Society and Culture
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Society and Culture
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Society and Culture
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Society and Culture
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Society and Culture "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Society and Culture
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston 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 It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Society and Culture Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Society and Culture The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture
"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) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "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) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
