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Felixstowe Family History Society - Membership and local information. Helping beginners to increase their knowledge of genealogy and to assist them in their own family history research. Includes description of services offered and contact details.
Salle Rose Fencing Club - Club history, member profiles, photos, news and contact details.
Felixstowe Scribblers - Composed of locally based published and unpublished writers the Felixstowe Scribblers provide an informal forum for writers to share and discuss their work. Includes description of services and contact details.
Seaton Road Methodist Church - Presents services, activities, future vision, contacts, youth, magazine, building project, links and location.
Saint Felix Parish - Catholic church offers mass times, contact details, parish history and information on convent.
Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club - Located at the mouth of the River Deben. Includes programme of events, social club information, contact and location details.
Felixstowe Area Community Transport - Dial-a-Ride minibus and community car services for elderly, disabled and other people with mobility problems. Overview, people, services, calendar and enquiries.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Society and Culture Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Society and Culture When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Society and Culture "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Society and Culture It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Society and Culture There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Society and Culture The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Society and Culture "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper Society and Culture There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Society and Culture Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer Society and Culture "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Society and Culture In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Society and Culture Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Society and Culture Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Society and Culture "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Society and Culture No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Society and Culture We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
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