Genealogical Information - Resources for people who are trying to trace ancestors from Lavenham.
Lavenham Merchants Guild - The Guild seeks to promote business within the village while protecting it from unnecessary change.
1st Lavenham Scout Group - Contact and activity information for the Beaver, Cub and Scout groups, which take boys and girls from 6 to 16.
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture "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) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Society and Culture
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g 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 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Society and Culture
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Society and Culture "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Society and Culture "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Society and Culture
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther 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 Society and Culture That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Society and Culture Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Society and Culture
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Society and Culture "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Society and Culture
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Society and Culture blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Society and Culture
