Knowhere Guide - Informal information about Stowmarket and links to noticeboard facility.
Icanho Centre - Developed by the John Grooms Association for Disabled People as a day-centre providing long-term care for adults recovering from brain injuries.
Helmingham Hall - Garden and deer park set around moated Tudor hall. Overview, open days and prices.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Stowmarket Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Stowmarket
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Stowmarket It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Stowmarket
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Stowmarket Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Stowmarket
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Stowmarket "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Stowmarket
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Stowmarket Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 Stowmarket
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Stowmarket I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Stowmarket
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Stowmarket Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Stowmarket
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 "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Stowmarket I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Stowmarket
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Stowmarket Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Stowmarket
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) 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 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Stowmarket If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Stowmarket
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Stowmarket Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Stowmarket
