St Mary's Church, Sompting - Photographs, models, history, discussion and bibliography on this Anglo-Saxon church by Stephanie James and David Nash Ford from Britannia Internet Magazine.
Sompting Village Morris - Separate men's and women's sides. Profile, activities, diary and photo gallery.
Sompting Abbotts Preparatory School - Independent school for boys and girls aged 3 to 13. Describes the school and provides information about boarding, arts, sport and activities,
Church of St Mary, Sompting - An examination of its Anglo-Saxon tower and sculpture. Includes descriptions and photo gallery.
Harlequin Theatre Company - A junior theatre company based in Sompting. Photographs and information about the productions and members of the company and the church at which they meet.
Sound Design Roadshow - Mobile disco covering Sussex and Surrey. Profile, services and equipment.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Sompting Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Sompting
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 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Sompting Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Sompting
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 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sompting "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Sompting
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sompting The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Sompting
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Sompting "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Sompting
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sompting Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Sompting
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Sompting A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Sompting
"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, ignorance, g It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sompting Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Sompting
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sompting The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Sompting
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Sompting Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Sompting
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon 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 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Sompting "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Sompting
