Henfield Parish Council - Information about the Parish Council with minutes, agendas and Village Appraisal results. Also includes links to the museum and other village sites.
Henfield Theatre Company - Offers drama and opera. Profile, news and information about past and future shows, and membership.
Knowhowe - Offers IT services for small business including web design, Windows programming, database development and systems integration. Profile and services.
Henfield Millennium Virtual Tour - Interactive photographic tour of the village including index and links to other local bodies.
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Henfield 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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Henfield
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Henfield Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" 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 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Henfield
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Henfield 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 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Henfield
Marriage is a rest period between romances. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Henfield "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Henfield
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Henfield 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 is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Henfield
"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) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Henfield The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Henfield
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Henfield "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Henfield
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Henfield Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Henfield
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Henfield Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Henfield
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H 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 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Henfield Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Henfield
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Henfield The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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