Deanery of Maidenhead - In the Church of England's Diocese of Oxford. Contains links to local churches, who's who section, diary, deanery plan and resources list.
Douai Abbey - Benedictine monastery located in Woolhampton. Information on the Benedictine life and services, with newsletters and virtual tours.
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If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
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-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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-- Ken Dodd Religion
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
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-- H. L. Mencken Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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- Robert Orben Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Religion Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
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-- William Gladstone Religion
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Religion "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Religion
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) My other wife is beautiful. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Religion When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
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-- Ernest Dimnet "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Religion
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Religion In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Religion
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) 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
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- General George Patton What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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-- Countess of Blessington Religion
"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 It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Religion To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Religion
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
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-- Abigail Van Buren When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Religion
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Religion
