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East Anglian Daily Times - News, sport, business, agriculture, campaigns and regular columns from Suffolk's daily morning newspaper.
Advertiser - Weekly news, business, classifieds, features and community information supplied by the Advertiser Group newspapers.
The Link Magazine - Monthly local magazine for Offton, Willisham, Somersham and Flowton. Includes an archive of past issues.
BBC - Suffolk - Gateway to local news, sport, entertainment, features and community issues.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi News and Media There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) 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. News and Media "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) News and Media What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov News and Media "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) News and Media "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson News and Media "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Man and wife make one fool. News and Media Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau News and Media "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) News and Media "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw News and Media We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight 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 should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington News and Media It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville News and Media Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) News and Media By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) News and Media Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) News and Media Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) News and Media The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) News and Media Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche "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 I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen News and Media They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou News and Media Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates News and Media "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words News and Media
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