S.U. Minnis Bay Holiday Club - Activity clubs for children, plus childcare services. Includes meetings programme, events, staff profiles, photos and contacts.
Birchington Weather - Updated daily. Includes historical reports and link to tide table.
Waterloo Tower - History of the bell tower in Quex Park and its builder John Powell Powell.
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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Birchington "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Birchington
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Birchington Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Birchington
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Birchington "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Birchington
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Birchington "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Birchington
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Birchington Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Birchington
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Birchington Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Birchington
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Birchington There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Birchington
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "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) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Birchington "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Birchington
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Birchington Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Birchington
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Birchington A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Birchington
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Birchington Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Birchington
