Cobham Parish Council - Features photos, local attractions, accommodation and council information.
Cobham Cricket Club - Includes club information, location, fixtures and history plus a section for Colts and Juniors.
Rochester and Cobham Park Golf Club - Located near Cobham. Includes club brochure, course details, pro shop, location map and visitor information.
Meadow Room - Venue for hire. Facilities include hall with a stage, kitchen and car park. Provides event listings, photos, details and contact information.
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Cobham The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Cobham
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Cobham Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Cobham
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Cobham The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Cobham
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cobham A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Cobham
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Cobham That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Cobham
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Cobham Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Cobham
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Cobham Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Cobham
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Cobham I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "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) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Cobham
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Cobham Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Cobham
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) 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 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Cobham Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Cobham
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Cobham "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Cobham
