Pangbourne Valley Playgroup - Registered charity providing pre-school education and fun for 2 1/2 - 5 year olds. In the grounds of Pangbourne Primary School.
Adventure Dolphin Centre - Offers youth activities including canoeing, kayaking, climbing, skiing and life saving. Details of courses and facilities available, with photo gallery and full contact information.
Pangbourne Choral Society - Formed in 1973, holds two or three concerts per year with guest soloists and usually accompanied by the Philomel Orchestra. Details of past and future events.
The Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel - Built to commemorate the lives and sacrifice of all those who died in the South Atlantic in 1982. Includes a virtual tour and newsletter.
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Pangbourne The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Pangbourne
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Pangbourne The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Pangbourne
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Pangbourne "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) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Pangbourne
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Pangbourne I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Pangbourne
"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) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Pangbourne "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Pangbourne
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Pangbourne We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Pangbourne
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Pangbourne Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Pangbourne
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Pangbourne "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Pangbourne
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) 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 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Pangbourne Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Pangbourne
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Pangbourne Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Pangbourne
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w 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 Pangbourne Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Pangbourne
