Walsham le Willows - Details of the village including history, genealogy information, local news and events.
Clarkes of Walsham - Builders merchants and garden furniture. Full catalogue of goods supplied and offers deliveries throughout Britain.
Vajrasana Retreat Centre - Rural retreat centre for the London Buddhist Centre. Offers meditation retreats, including introductory weekends. Information on Buddhism and bookshop.
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Walsham-le-Willows I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Walsham-le-Willows
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Walsham-le-Willows I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Walsham-le-Willows
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Walsham-le-Willows "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Walsham-le-Willows
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Walsham-le-Willows Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Walsham-le-Willows
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Walsham-le-Willows I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Walsham-le-Willows
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Walsham-le-Willows I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Walsham-le-Willows
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Walsham-le-Willows No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Walsham-le-Willows
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Walsham-le-Willows Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Walsham-le-Willows
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Walsham-le-Willows A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Walsham-le-Willows
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Walsham-le-Willows "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Walsham-le-Willows
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) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Walsham-le-Willows Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Walsham-le-Willows
