Project Seven - Helps raise funding for local charities and organisations. Includes archives, news, event and contact details.
Sudbury District Scouts - Includes news, diary, events, training, links and member pages. Also contains a guest book and contact details.
Welcome To Sudbury Chess Club - Site for Sudbury Chess Club. Includes full details of programme, meetings and contacts.
Sudbury Choral Society - Site for Sudbury Choral Society. Contains full programme of performances and joining details.
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Society and Culture
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Society and Culture Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Anyway, 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,
ign "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Society and Culture "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Society and Culture
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Society and Culture "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Society and Culture Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Society and Culture He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Society and Culture I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Society and Culture Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Society and Culture
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Society and Culture And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Society and Culture
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Society and Culture In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Society and Culture "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Society and Culture
