Yapton Parish Council - Describes its services and practices with agendas, minutes and meeting calendar.
Eureka - Counselling service. Describes its therapies with qualifications and testimonials.
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Yapton "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Yapton
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Yapton "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Yapton
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. 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 "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Yapton I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Yapton
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Yapton "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Yapton
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey 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 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Yapton If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Yapton
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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 Yapton I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Yapton
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Yapton There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Yapton
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Yapton A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Yapton
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Yapton I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Yapton
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Yapton The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Yapton
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Yapton "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Yapton
