Eaton Bray - Description of the village and its history with links to local organisations, services and businesses.
Taverners Bridge Club - Offers duplicate bridge. Describes the venue, meeting and membership arrangements with news, minibridge rules and a location map.
Eaton Bray - Offers a brief description and history, and includes genealogical links.
St Mary the Virgin - Displays photograph of church and provides location details.
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Eaton Bray Marriage is a rest period between romances. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Eaton Bray
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Eaton Bray Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Eaton Bray
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Eaton Bray "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Eaton Bray
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Eaton Bray ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Eaton Bray
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "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) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Eaton Bray "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Eaton Bray
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Eaton Bray Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Eaton Bray
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Eaton Bray The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Eaton Bray
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Eaton Bray The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "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) Eaton Bray
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola 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 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Eaton Bray Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Eaton Bray
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Eaton Bray "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Eaton Bray
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Eaton Bray It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Eaton Bray
