Eckington - Community site. Includes a descriptive tour of the village, contacts for local organisations, details of church services, and a calendar of events.
Eckington Bridge Club - Includes information about membership, an events diary, match results, and photographs.
The Anchor Inn and Restaurant - Offers bed and breakfast accommodation, with room tariffs. Also includes bar and restaurant menus and a guide to the local area.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Eckington "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Eckington 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 Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Eckington
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Eckington "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Eckington
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Eckington War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Eckington
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eckington I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Eckington
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Eckington "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Eckington
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eckington The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Eckington
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Eckington "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Eckington
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Eckington A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Eckington
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Eckington Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews 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 Eckington
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Eckington "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Eckington
