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Great House at Sonning - Restaurant menus and tarrifs, with directions, map and descriptions of facilities, both private and corporate.
The Mill at Sonning - Dinner theatre in a restored 18th Century flour-mill on the River Thames. Information on facilities, history, events, current season and prices.
The Berkshire Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers - Photographs, information about guild membership, and information on the annual challenge.
Reading Sailing Club - Information on club membership and activities. Located in Sonning Eye.
Reading Blue Coat School - For boys aged 11-18, with a mixed sixth form. Information on the school philosophy and entrance procedure, with prospectus and calendar.
Reading Old Blues - For former pupils of Reading Bluecoat School. Includes news, diary dates, memories and sports pages.
The French Horn Hotel - Photographs of the individual bedrooms and examples of the menus.
Sonning Cricket Club - News, events, player profiles and pictures.
Sonning Golf Club - Information on club, and corporate and wedding facilities with testimonials.
Sonning Flowers - Florists providing flowers with contemporary and traditional floral designs.
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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Sonning Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Sonning Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Sonning In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Sonning I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Sonning Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Sonning I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Sonning Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Sonning Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Sonning Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "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 Sonning I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Sonning We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Sonning The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Sonning The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sonning 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Sonning Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Sonning You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Sonning "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Sonning Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Sonning We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous Sonning Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sonning "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Sonning
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