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Faversham Online - Information about events and where to stay, with town history, maps, directory and resources, plus photo gallery.
Thames Sailing Barge 'Greta' - History, photographs, trips and charters on the SB Greta, built in 1892. Includes information about chartering the ship for cruises, day trips and barge matches.
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain 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 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Faversham "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Faversham I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Faversham It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Faversham Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words 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 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle "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 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Faversham The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Faversham The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill 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 I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Faversham Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen Faversham 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 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "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 blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Faversham The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Faversham If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow "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) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Faversham Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr Faversham A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Faversham I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Faversham "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Faversham "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Faversham Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Faversham "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Faversham It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Faversham Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Faversham The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Faversham Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Faversham
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