Mervyn and Susan Wells - Personal site. Offers a history of the village, photograph gallery, and information about the authors, one of which offers talks on photography.
The Chase Folk Club - Contains details of the resident band, whats on, news, and reviews.
Hammerwich - Offers a history, and virtual tour of the village.
IMPlog - Supply business and education with Internet services, computer hardware, software and network solutions. Contains company profile, technical help, and information on the Data Security Act.
St John's Community Church - Describes its facilities and worship with sermons, directions and information about room hire.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Burntwood "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Burntwood
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Burntwood "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Burntwood
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Burntwood The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Burntwood
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Burntwood 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Burntwood
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Burntwood Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Burntwood
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Burntwood "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Burntwood
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Burntwood In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Burntwood
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara 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 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Burntwood I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Burntwood
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Burntwood And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Burntwood
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) 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 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Burntwood Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Burntwood
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Burntwood "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Burntwood
