Marie Griffiths - Find out about the author an Oracle DBA, cat lover, who has lived in Wolverhampton, Ipswich and Bracknell.
Mags and Dave's Hideout - Local information about Lowestoft and Pakefield as well as computing and my hobbies such as stone painting and beading.
Jim Bourne - A.k.a. Jimbo. from Exning, near Newmarket.
Lynns Hall - Brief details about the 15th century manor house near Sudbury, by Guy A. Massey.
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stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Personal Pages "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Personal Pages
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Man and wife make one fool. Personal Pages The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Personal Pages
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Personal Pages The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) ... 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
Personal Pages 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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
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The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Personal Pages
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Personal Pages
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
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as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Personal Pages
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Personal Pages I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
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Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Personal Pages My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Personal Pages
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Personal Pages Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Personal Pages
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Personal Pages "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
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