The Victoria - Information on staff and entertainment at this pub.
Cornwell Community Church - Part of the Church of England parish of St Catherine's in Tilehurst. Includes services, actives, programmes, and newsletter.
BS Quality Consultant - Consultant helping companies achieve quality excellence and approval to the international quality assurance standards (ISO 9001 and ISO 9002). FAQs and contact details.
Tilehurst.net - Comprehensive directory-style information site for residents of Tilehurst and surrounding villages. Includes information and links of a general nature. Available for download.
Prudential Ibis Club - Sports and Social facility offering range of health, fitness and conference options. Includes newsletter, membership information and details of facilities.
Ex-LHS class of 98 - Referes to the Little Heath School Sixth Form class of 1998. News and whereabouts of the students.
ex-LHS - Web based discussion board for the Ex-LHS class of 1998.
Little Heath School - A specialist school in science and mathematics. Information on the school including OFSTED report and examination results.
Direct Car Rental UK Ltd - Offers meet and greet service at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Includes terms and conditions and fleet information with prices.
The EquityRelease Centre - Cash equity release plans and advice. Information on services and enquiry form.
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Tilehurst "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Tilehurst
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Tilehurst I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Tilehurst
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Tilehurst Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Tilehurst
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Tilehurst For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Tilehurst
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Tilehurst When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Tilehurst
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Tilehurst 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 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Tilehurst
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Tilehurst You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Tilehurst
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "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." The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tilehurst blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tilehurst
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 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Tilehurst "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Tilehurst
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Tilehurst I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Tilehurst
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Tilehurst "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Tilehurst
