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Stamford Links - Explore our beautifully preserved English stone town, historic buildings and churches, fine hotels, friendly guesthouses.
VisitStamford.com - An informative directory of every web site in the Lincolnshire town.
Stamford Guide - Guide to the town, includes pictures of a large number of landmarks, monuments and attractions.
Stamford On Line - Stamford's information network for local news, accommodation, property, shopping, business, maps, classifieds, forums, tourism.
The Town of Stamford - A short but informative guide.
Stamford UK - History, news, shopping, visitor information and business guide, for the town.
Stamford Vision - Information about this partnership between local government, business, voluntary and educational sectors, and community groups. Contains press releases and copies of the public consultation to find out how the town should be sympathetically developed.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Stamford The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Stamford Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Man and wife make one fool. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Stamford My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Stamford "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton 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 Stamford Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Stamford Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Stamford I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Stamford The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Stamford We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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 Stamford Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words Stamford Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Stamford "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Stamford "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Stamford "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Stamford Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) 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 Stamford "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi 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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Stamford "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli Stamford Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington 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 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Stamford I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Stamford It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers "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) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow Stamford Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin Stamford
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