Leatherhead Chamber of Commerce - Protects and promotes the interests of local businesses. Events, application form and contacts.
Therfield School - A mixed comprehensive non-selective secondary school. Provides in-depth detail of the school and access to its prospectus and resources.
Juliana M Ainscough - freelance professional musician based in the South-East of England. Available to perform, teach and advise on matters musical.
Leatherhead Methodist Church - Location, the weeks activities and people. Part of the Dorking and Horsham circuit.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle 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 Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Leatherhead Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Leatherhead
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch 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 Leatherhead 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Leatherhead
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Leatherhead "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Leatherhead
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Leatherhead Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Leatherhead
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 Leatherhead University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Leatherhead
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Leatherhead 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 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Leatherhead
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Leatherhead Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Leatherhead
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Leatherhead When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Leatherhead
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 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 Leatherhead You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Leatherhead
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Leatherhead A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Leatherhead
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Leatherhead Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Leatherhead
