I am rather afraid we are losing the Christ of Christmas behind the tinsel and gaiety. Isn’t it a tragedy to have a birthday party for someone, then forget to invite him? — The Rev. Norman K. Archer, minister of St James Road Baptist Church, Watford.

There was no real collision – it was just a matter of the two vehicles meeting. — Defendant in Watford Magistrates Court motoring case.

Britain is like a runner who stops in the middle of the race to look at his reflection in a pool of water and sees, to his surprise, the rest of his competitiors passing him by. — Mrs Shirley Williams, Fabian Society general secretary, at Watford.

Modern playwrights have two main themes, sex and symbolism. In this they are one up on novelists, who don’t bother much about symbols. — A member of Kings Langley Players.

I am not a public relations officer. I regard P.R.O.s as an unnecessary evil. — Mr L. Metcalf, Divisional Traffic Assistant of British Railways, at Rickmansworth Rotary Club on Tuesday.

The motto of my colleagues might be one which was well known in the Services during the war – ‘The impossible we do at once; miracles take a little longer.’ — Mr. C.H. French, president of the Watford Corporation

 

[From various Watford Observers of December 1960]