Regency Park Hotel - Contact information, services and events are included.
Monks Chambers - Details of the restoration and history of this 16th century house. Also some tips and advice for owners of old buildings.
Pied Piper Pre School - Pre school education from two and a half years to school age. Prospectus, with information on current projects and fundraising.
Thatcham Methodist Church - Offers welcome, Worship, sermons, overview of the life and work of the congregation, local community, history, photos, contacts and location. In the Newbury and Hungerford circuit.
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Thatcham Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Thatcham
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Thatcham Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Thatcham
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Thatcham 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 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Thatcham
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Thatcham Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Thatcham
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Thatcham I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Thatcham
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Thatcham Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Thatcham
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Thatcham Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Thatcham
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Thatcham "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Thatcham
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thatcham "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Thatcham
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Thatcham Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Thatcham
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Thatcham The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Thatcham
