Shefford Town - Gives history of Shefford and Chicksands with a diary of local events and information pages.
CHIXnet - RAF Chicksands Alumni and Friends Association. Includes history, list of alumni, and photograph gallery. [graphics rich]
Shefford Saints Football Club - Youth football team. Includes history, event calendar, results and a photograph gallery.
Shefford Methodist Church - Includes calendar of events, youth section, a photograph gallery, and rotas.
Golden Healing - Complementary Therapies. Gives details of treatments available and practitioner qualifications.
Samuel Whitbread Community College - Upper school and community college. Site includes curriculum information, contact details and information on the school, its services and facilities.
St Michael and All Angels Church - Details on this parish and community church, including history, events, news and links, plus a newsletter.
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 "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 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Shefford They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Shefford
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Shefford Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Shefford
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Shefford When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Shefford
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Shefford "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Shefford
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Shefford Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Shefford
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.
-- Crow "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Shefford "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Shefford
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Shefford The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Shefford
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Shefford blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Shefford
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Shefford In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Shefford
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Shefford Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Shefford
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Shefford Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Shefford
