Welcome to Lavenham - A detailed guide to the facilities and attractions in the famous medieval town of Lavenham, plus useful information for intending visitors.
Art Waves - Crooked House art gallery of work by Alison Englefield. Paper pulp images, cards, jewellery, illustrations and driftwood sculptures.
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Lavenham My other wife is beautiful. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lavenham
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Lavenham Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Lavenham
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lavenham A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "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) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Lavenham
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lavenham 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 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Lavenham
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Lavenham One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Lavenham
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Lavenham When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "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) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Lavenham
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Lavenham Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Lavenham
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Lavenham Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Lavenham
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Lavenham Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "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) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Lavenham
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Lavenham To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Lavenham
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Lavenham ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Lavenham
