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Stonemead House Dental Practice - Offering details of staff, prices, services and location.

Chalfont St Giles Community Website - Local information including news, photographs, history, maps and business directory.

Chiltern Open Air Museum - Rescues and re-erects historic buildings from medieval to modern. Its collection includes a cottage of around 1600, and a variety of 19th-century buildings. Full information on facilities and opening hours.

Deanway United Church - A joint Methodist and United Reformed Church. Details of services, diary, history, location and pictures. Part of the Amersham circuit.

St Giles Furniture - Makers and suppliers of wooden furniture. Full product information, with trade and contact details.

Chalfont St Giles Infant & Nursery School - Photograph gallery, information for parents, school curriculum details and text of Ofsted report.

Milton's Cottage Trust - Information about the cottage which used to be home to the poet John Milton, and the museum now centred there. Includes photographs, details of how to support the trust, and other information about the village.

Chalfont St Giles Middle School - Feature school newsletter and calendar, PTA information, photographs and examples of pupils' work.

Green Meadows Kennels - Kennel and cattery providing heated accommodation for pets. Map, enquiry form and prices.

1st Chalfont St Giles Scout Group - Information about this group which includes a Beaver Colony, two Cub Packs, a Scout Troop and a Ventures Unit.

Dyna Band - Provide resistant elastic exercise bands. Includes information about them, ordering and a workout video.

The Chilterns Montessori School - [Seer Green] Private school for children from 2 to 5 years old. Details of the schools' aims, objectives, staff and educational programme plus means of contact.

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Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz 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 Chalfont St Giles "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Chalfont St Giles "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Chalfont St Giles I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Chalfont St Giles What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Chalfont St Giles The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Chalfont St Giles When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Chalfont St Giles We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Chalfont St Giles UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Chalfont St Giles Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Chalfont St Giles I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Chalfont St Giles Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words 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 He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Chalfont St Giles I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley Chalfont St Giles The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Chalfont St Giles When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Chalfont St Giles
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