Findon - Information on the village, including local history, places of interest, and local businesses.
Findon Village Antiquities - Valerie Martin's extensive exploration of the history of Findon, including articles on all periods of its past, an illustrated tour of its listed buildings, photographs and histories of specific buildings.
Findon Downs Dog Training Club - Information about classes offered, tests, demo team, open show and newsletter back issues.
Tanks and Targets Ltd - Offers clay shooting and military tank rides and driving. Describes its facilities and activities with prices and directions.
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Findon Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Findon
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Findon People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Findon
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
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your "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Findon The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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-- Mark Russell The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Findon
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Findon It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Findon
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Findon "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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-- Oliver Herford Findon
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words My other wife is beautiful. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Findon The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Findon
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Findon When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Findon
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "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) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Findon Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Findon
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Findon There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Findon
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Findon The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Findon
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Findon Use your own best judgment at all times.
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Findon
