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Doddington in Kent - Information about the rural village in the heart of the 'Garden of England' county. Includes local events and a business directory.
Doddington Village - Features map, businesses, events, clubs and societies, plus information about the primary school and the parish council
Doddington Service Station - Village garage offering breakdown recovery, mechanical repairs, air conditioning repairs, fuel, MOT testing, parts and welding. Includes details of used cares for sale.
Ragged Rascal - Offer a range of toys, games, gifts, dressing up clothes and books. Catalogue and contact details.
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Doddington "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Doddington "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Doddington Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Doddington Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Doddington No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Doddington To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Doddington He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Doddington People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde Doddington A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Doddington Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson "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) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Doddington "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Doddington 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 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli "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-) "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 Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Doddington Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Doddington UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. 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 Doddington I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Doddington "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Doddington Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Doddington Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. "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 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Doddington Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Doddington During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi May you never leave your marriage alive. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Doddington Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Doddington
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