Bures - A village web site describing historic buildings and structures together with photographs of the local countryside.
Waveney Valley Views - Photographs throughout the seasons in and around the River Waveney Valley on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, plus what's on locally.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Suffolk I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Suffolk
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Suffolk Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Suffolk
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Suffolk Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Suffolk
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Suffolk Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Suffolk
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Suffolk "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Suffolk
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Suffolk Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Suffolk
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Suffolk I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Suffolk
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Suffolk Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Suffolk
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Suffolk 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 We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Suffolk
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Suffolk If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Suffolk
"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 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Suffolk I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "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) Suffolk
