Oakley Village - History of the village with pictorial tour, Parish Council newsletter and minutes of Parish Council meetings.
Easy Pools - Offers swimming pools and accessories, spas and saunas. Includes a photograph gallery.
Oakley Beauty Salon - Offering full body massage, indian head massage, aromatherapy, manicures, waxing, eye care and skin care.
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Oakley Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Oakley
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Oakley If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Oakley
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Oakley Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Oakley We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Oakley
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Oakley "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Oakley
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Oakley Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Oakley
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano May you never leave your marriage alive. "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) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Oakley In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Oakley
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Oakley "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Oakley
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Oakley Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Oakley
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Oakley "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Oakley
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Oakley Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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