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Welcome to Twyford - Community web site providing information about the Parish Council, schools, businesses, shops, churches, events, doctors, dentists, services, clubs and societies.
The Most Beautiful House in the World - Artist and writer, Richard Conway-Jones. Selection of paintings with prices, exhibitions and biography.
Bridge House Care Home - Grade II listed Georgian building dedicated to the care of the elderly. Details of facilities and services.
Twyford Cricket Club - Members of the Berkshire Cricket League. Results, statistics, tables and history.
Somewhere to Stay - Detached building situated close to the owner's house in a two acre river-fronted garden, providing bed and breakfast accommodation. Tariff and contact details.
Twyford & Ruscombe Theatre Group - Small amateur drama group who put together local stage productions. Details of productions and booking.
Reading Environmental Partnership (Southern) Ltd - Building services consulting engineers. Details of services, clients and projects.
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Twyford Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Twyford Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams "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) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Twyford "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry Twyford 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Twyford Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Twyford MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board 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 Twyford "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Twyford "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Twyford "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Twyford The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 Twyford Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Twyford As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Twyford Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Twyford Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf Twyford Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Twyford "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Twyford "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Twyford the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Twyford It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Twyford When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Twyford "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Twyford
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