Dover - The Gateway to England - A guide to the town written by a resident. Includes maps, pubs guide, eating out and transport.
Dover Town Council - Official site. Includes town guide, events listing, slide show, concert dates, list of town councillors and annual report.
Samphire Hoe - Provides photos and information about the nature area.
Dover: Lock and Key of the Kingdom - Covers the town's history from the earliest times to the present. Also features a leisure and attractions guide.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Dover "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Dover
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Dover It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Dover
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dover Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Dover
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dover "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Dover
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Dover Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "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) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Dover
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Dover In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Dover
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Dover Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Dover
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Dover Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Dover
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Dover "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Dover
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Dover The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dover
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Dover "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 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Dover
