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The Canterbury Tales - Librarius provides the full text on-line of the collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400), with glossary.
Canterbury Circle of Libraries - Co-operative group of 17 libraries, with details for each one.
The Nevill Gallery in Canterbury - Includes newsletter, online store, details of current exhibits, picture archive, plus information about their framing, restoration, guilding and valuation services.
Canterbury Festival - Annual arts festival. Includes event history, what's on, booking information, news and highlights.
Canterbury Green Man - Photographs by Nigel Rushbrook of the Green Man sculptures found in Canterbury and Devon.
Canterbury Buildings - An exploration of the buildings of the city, from pre 10th century to the modern day. Photos, maps, timeline, details and style features.
The Official Site of Canterbury Cathedral - Photos, history and an interactive tour.
Kent Beer Festival - Includes location, beer guide, what's on and entry fees.
Kings Gallery - Stocking a selection of original works, limited editions, and prints. Includes news and contacts.
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Arts and Entertainment Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Arts and Entertainment Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Arts and Entertainment The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "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) Arts and Entertainment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Arts and Entertainment "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Arts and Entertainment I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb "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 Arts and Entertainment The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Arts and Entertainment The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Arts and Entertainment "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Arts and Entertainment If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Arts and Entertainment "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Arts and Entertainment "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Arts and Entertainment "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Arts and Entertainment History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Arts and Entertainment Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Arts and Entertainment I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Arts and Entertainment Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
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